On 12 Jul., 09:08, George Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, I'm a novice programmer trying to better define a hobby project > I'm thinking of. > > What I would like to do is take a program and embed it or put it > within a Python-run GUI, using the GUI just to capture and send input > to the application, and display the ouput. > > Specifically I want to use a Python module such as wxPython, pygame or > pyglet to build the UI, capture key presses, and then send a string to > the program, an interactive fiction interpreter; the reason for this > is that the interpreter on its own doesn't have the capability to > recognize certain key presses on the keyboard. I thought that writing > a middle layer rather than a brand new interpreter would be easier for > someone of my skill level. > > The interpreter would send its output to the Python GUI. The GUI then > would be as light/translucent as possible, just accepting input, > sending it to the interpreter, and displaying the output as if you > were just running the interpreter by itself. > > As I don't really know the issues involved, I'm hoping someone can > point me in the right direction. Do people 'frame' programs with > something like wxPython or pygame and use the frame to capture and > pass along input, and receive and display the output? > > thanks, George
Which interface does your interpreter provide ? Just commandline or can you access by other methods ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/pexpect/ might help you Greetings, Uwe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
