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SWIG for Macintosh and Tcl (1st attempt) (fwd)
by Steven D. Majewski March 13, 1997

March 13, 1997

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:14:12 -0800 From: David Beazley <beazley(a)sol.cs.utah.edu> Reply-To: mactcl(a)eng.sun.com To: sdm7g(a)virginia.edu Subject: SWIG for Macintosh and Tcl (1st attempt) Greetings fellow Mac users! Just thought I would drop a quick note to announce that a highly experimental version of SWIG is now available for the Macintosh at ftp://ftp.cs.utah.edu/pub/beazley/SWIG/swig1.1b5.tar.gz For the unindoctrinated, SWIG is a code development tool I've been working on for building scripting language interfaces to C/C++ codes. In a nutshell, you can take a list of ANSI C/C++ declarations and turn them into a Tcl/Tk, Python, or Perl interface. However, until only recently, SWIG has only supported Unix systems. I'd like to try and change that (especially since I own a Mac). This release of SWIG is extremely rough---in fact, it's probably features the worst Mac application interface ever, but it's a start. Despite this, I have used it to successfully build some simple Mac Tcl 8.0 extensions. If people are interested in this sort of thing (and willing to live on the edge), I would be extremely interested in getting feedback about improving MacSWIG and how it can be made to work easily with Tcl/Tk and Mac code development tools. Being primarily a Unix programmer, I am by no means an expert at Mac programming, but I'm hoping some feedback can give SWIG a swift kick in the right direction (and give me some ideas on how to better approach the problem). The SWIG distribution is only currently available in source form. A project file for Code Warrior 10 is included in the distribution and it seems to build cleanly on my PowerMac. Otherwise, the standard disclaimers apply--this is highly experimental, use at your own peril, etc... In any case, I'd definitely like to get some feedback and ideas anyone might have about all of this. Cheers, Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Beazley Department of Computer Science University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 beazley(a)cs.utah.edu http://www.cs.utah.edu/~beazley ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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Please help: Crypto toolkit for Mac
by Jurjen N.E. Bos March 7, 1997

March 7, 1997

Did any of you guys try compiling Andrew Kuchling's Python Cryptography Toolkit for the Mac? If yes, how did you do it? Thanks in advance, Jurjen -- jurjen(a)q2c.nl ( Jurjen N.E. Bos) _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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Re: wxPython (was Re: [PYTHON GUI-SIG] native Python GUI module(s)?)
by Joseph Strout March 3, 1997

March 3, 1997

On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Edward C. Zimmermann wrote: > > That sounds good... what must I do to try this out on the Mac? (I'm > > guessing that the answer is: download the Python sources, download wxMac > > sources, get each to compile (which assumes you have CodeWarrior and there > > are no nasty version incompatibilities between CW10 and CW11, which in > Ugh.. Yes.. Unless someone else does it... > Building wxP for a platform is a pain! But you don't have to build it > but once its built by someone you can just use it. Hmm, I hadn't thought of that. This is a good point; I suppose some kind soul could (for example) build a wxP binary for PowerMac, and upload it to the Python ftp site. Those who want it would just download it and replace the out-of-the-box Python executable with that. > > wxWin doesn't run on the Mac. wxMac didn't even run on the Mac, the last > > time I tried it -- the first demo promptly crashed my machine. Of course, > > that was some months ago; I've heard that it has improved since then. > I have also heard the same.. But that is an issue that can should enough > people join the wxPython bandwagon that develop Mac.. Its called committee > development.. Yes, it's a possibility. > The main problem with wxPython is that we never seemed to get enough > people joining in.. And I (and probably Harri as well) have not had the > time to keep things rolling on our own.. We are still committed to wxP > and shall continue to develop and use it in our applications.. And once > we have the time probably release a new version.. Well, it sounds like a good alternative to Tk (not that there's anything wrong with Tk -- I just like to have alternatives!). What platforms does wxPython run on at the moment? Any chance I could try it out on my PowerMac, Sun, or SGI? Thanks, -- Joe ,------------------------------------------------------------------. | Joseph J. Strout Department of Neuroscience, UCSD | | jstrout(a)ucsd.edu http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~jstrout/ | `------------------------------------------------------------------' _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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Re: [PYTHONMAC-SIG] serial communications
by Jack Jansen March 2, 1997

March 2, 1997

Recently, Jesse Bregman <jbregman(a)mail.arc.nasa.gov> said: > I know this must be possible, but I haven't found information anywhere > about how to do serial communications using Python. I am used to Basic's > method of treating the serial port as a file, then just reading or writing > to it as if it were any other file. Does anyone know of a similarly easy > way to do this with Python? Yes, look at the ctb module. You can't read the serial port as if it were a file, but it is pretty easy to write a wrapper object in Python that would allow you to do this. -- Jack Jansen | ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ Jack.Jansen(a)cwi.nl | ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack | see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm _______________ PYTHONMAC-SIG - SIG on Python for the Apple Macintosh send messages to: pythonmac-sig(a)python.org administrivia to: pythonmac-sig-request(a)python.org _______________

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