> > > > Michael, I see you have several Windows answers, but it doesn't look as > though you found quite what you were hoping for on OSX. My suggestion > would be to take the script and run it through py2app, which will turn it > into a stand-alone application which can then be added to your list of > StartUp or LogIn applications. If you never request input or produce > output, it will quite happily run in the background with no window and no > menu (although by default there will be an icon in the dock). At that > point it is so much a background application that the ONLY way you can quit > it is via the Force Quit dialog. If you generate status or housekeeping > print messages, they will show up in ~/Library/Logfiles. Py2app isn't > particularly memory efficient, even a minimal application tends to run > close to 9-10 Mbytes, but if it spends most of its time sleeping, it will > use very little in the way of system resources. > > Good luck, > Bill >
Thanks, Bill. That is definitely more of what I am looking for and actually found that through some googling. What I am confused about now, is what's really the difference between py2app and the python Build Applet? -- Michael J. Lewis
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