HelloWorld PyObjC

Yesterday I finally sat down and got PyObjC working on Panther. I had been having some problems with it earlier until I realized I was installing the Jaguar version on Panther. Doh! If you want to install it, don't download the installer, it doesn't work on Panther. That isn't real clear on the download page. Anyway, I put together my first program with it. So here's my PyObjC version of a first program.

Yep, that's a very, very rudimentary web browser. That's how simple Cocoa makes this stuff. Doing that was just as easy as throwing up a simple text area to say "hello world". Of course it helps that I already know Cocoa, but ... anyway, here's the Python code for creating a very, very simple web browser using WebKit and PyObjC.

from PyObjCTools import NibClassBuilder, AppHelper
import WebKit
from Foundation import *
from AppKit import *

NibClassBuilder.extractClasses("MainMenu")

# class defined in MainMenu.nib
class MyObject(NibClassBuilder.AutoBaseClass):
    # the actual base class is NSObject
    # The following outlets are added to the class:
    # url
    # webview

    def loadURL_(self, sender):
        urlString = self.url.stringValue()
        url = NSURL.URLWithString_(urlString)
        request = NSURLRequest.requestWithURL_(url)
        self.webview.mainFrame().loadRequest_(request)
        
if __name__ == "__main__":
    AppHelper.runEventLoop()

  

Posted by Kimbro Staken