Added (minimal) documentation on how to build standalone applications

with Python.

Updated various things (versions of libraries used, urls).
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Jack Jansen 1998-02-25 15:40:35 +00:00
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@ -134,16 +134,20 @@ <H2><IMG SRC="html.icons/mkapplet.gif"><A NAME="applets">Creating applets</A></H
Now let us try to turn the python script into an applet, a standalone
application. This will <em>not</em> work if you have the "classic 68k"
Python distribution, only if you have the cfm68k or PPC distribution.
Python distribution, only if you have the cfm68k or PPC distribution.
<blockquote>
Actually, "standalone" is probably not the correct term here, since an
applet does still depend on a lot of the python environment: the
PythonCore shared library, the Python Preferences file, the python Lib
folder and any other modules that the main module depends on. It is
possible to get rid of all these dependencies except for the dependency
on PythonCore, but at the moment that is still quite difficult so we
will ignore that possibility for now. By standalone we mean here that
possible to get rid of all these dependencies and create true standalone
applications in Python, but this is a bit difficult. See <a href="standalone.html">
Standalone Applications in Python</a> for details. For this
document, by standalone we mean here that
the script has the look-and-feel of an application, including the
ability to have its own document types, be droppable, etc. <p>
ability to have its own document types, be droppable, etc.
</blockquote>
The easiest way to create an applet is to take your source file and
drop it onto "BuildApplet", located in the Python home