Macintosh Library Modules

Contents

• Front Matter
• 1. Using Python on a Mac OS 9 Macintosh
  • 1.1 Getting and Installing MacPython-OSX
    • 1.1.1 How to run a Python script
    • 1.1.2 Running scripts with a GUI
    • 1.1.3 configuration
  • 1.2 Getting and Installing MacPython-OS9
    • 1.2.1 Entering the interactive Interpreter
    • 1.2.2 How to run a Python script
    • 1.2.3 Simulating command line arguments
    • 1.2.4 Creating a Python script
    • 1.2.5 Configuration
  • 1.3 The IDE
    • 1.3.1 Using the ``Python Interactive'' window
    • 1.3.2 Writing a Python Script
    • 1.3.3 Executing a script from within the IDE
    • 1.3.4 ``Save as'' versus ``Save as Applet''
• 2. MacPython Modules
  • 2.1 mac -- Implementations for the os module
  • 2.2 macpath -- MacOS path manipulation functions
  • 2.3 macfs -- Various file system services
    • 2.3.1 FSSpec Objects
    • 2.3.2 Alias Objects
    • 2.3.3 FInfo Objects
  • 2.4 ic -- Access to Internet Config
    • 2.4.1 IC Objects
  • 2.5 MacOS -- Access to Mac OS interpreter features
  • 2.6 macostools -- Convenience routines for file manipulation
  • 2.7 findertools -- The finder's Apple Events interface
  • 2.8 EasyDialogs -- Basic Macintosh dialogs
    • 2.8.1 ProgressBar Objects
  • 2.9 FrameWork -- Interactive application framework
    • 2.9.1 Application Objects
    • 2.9.2 Window Objects
    • 2.9.3 ControlsWindow Object
    • 2.9.4 ScrolledWindow Object
    • 2.9.5 DialogWindow Objects
  • 2.10 autoGIL -- Global Interpreter Lock handling in event loops
• 3. MacPython OSA Modules
  • 3.1 gensuitemodule -- Generate OSA stub packages
  • 3.2 aetools -- OSA client support
  • 3.3 aepack -- Conversion between Python variables and AppleEvent data containers
  • 3.4 aetypes -- AppleEvent objects
  • 3.5 MiniAEFrame -- Open Scripting Architecture server support
    • 3.5.1 AEServer Objects
• 4. MacOS Toolbox Modules
  • 4.1 Carbon.AE -- Apple Events
  • 4.2 Carbon.AH -- Apple Help
  • 4.3 Carbon.App -- Appearance Manager
  • 4.4 Carbon.CF -- Core Foundation
  • 4.5 Carbon.CG -- Core Graphics
  • 4.6 Carbon.CarbonEvt -- Carbon Event Manager
  • 4.7 Carbon.Cm -- Component Manager
  • 4.8 Carbon.Ctl -- Control Manager
  • 4.9 Carbon.Dlg -- Dialog Manager
  • 4.10 Carbon.Evt -- Event Manager
  • 4.11 Carbon.Fm -- Font Manager
  • 4.12 Carbon.Folder -- Folder Manager
  • 4.13 Carbon.Help -- Help Manager
  • 4.14 Carbon.List -- List Manager
  • 4.15 Carbon.Menu -- Menu Manager
  • 4.16 Carbon.Mlte -- MultiLingual Text Editor
  • 4.17 Carbon.Qd -- QuickDraw
  • 4.18 Carbon.Qdoffs -- QuickDraw Offscreen
  • 4.19 Carbon.Qt -- QuickTime
  • 4.20 Carbon.Res -- Resource Manager and Handles
  • 4.21 Carbon.Scrap -- Scrap Manager
  • 4.22 Carbon.Snd -- Sound Manager
  • 4.23 Carbon.TE -- TextEdit
  • 4.24 Carbon.Win -- Window Manager
  • 4.25 ColorPicker -- Color selection dialog
• 5. Undocumented Modules
  • 5.1 applesingle -- AppleSingle decoder
  • 5.2 buildtools -- Helper module for BuildApplet and Friends
  • 5.3 py_resource -- Resources from Python code
  • 5.4 cfmfile -- Code Fragment Resource module
  • 5.5 icopen -- Internet Config replacement for open()
  • 5.6 macerrors -- Mac OS Errors
  • 5.7 macresource -- Locate script resources
  • 5.8 Nav -- NavServices calls
  • 5.9 mkcwproject -- Create CodeWarrior projects
  • 5.10 nsremote -- Wrapper around Netscape OSA modules
  • 5.11 PixMapWrapper -- Wrapper for PixMap objects
  • 5.12 preferences -- Application preferences manager
  • 5.13 pythonprefs -- Preferences manager for Python
  • 5.14 quietconsole -- Non-visible standard output
  • 5.15 videoreader -- Read QuickTime movies
  • 5.16 W -- Widgets built on FrameWork
  • 5.17 waste -- non-Apple TextEdit replacement
• A. History and License
  • A.1 History of the software
  • A.2 Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using Python
  • A.3 Licenses and Acknowledgements for Incorporated Software
    • A.3.1 Mersenne Twister
    • A.3.2 Sockets
    • A.3.3 Floating point exception control
    • A.3.4 MD5 message digest algorithm
    • A.3.5 Asynchronous socket services
    • A.3.6 Cookie management
    • A.3.7 Profiling
    • A.3.8 Execution tracing
    • A.3.9 UUencode and UUdecode functions
    • A.3.10 XML Remote Procedure Calls
• Module Index
• Index
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Release 2.4c1, documentation updated on 18 November 2004.