Dumb question from a Windows ignoramus: I find myself needing to write a Python app (call it myapp.py) that uses tkinter, which as it happens has to be used under (ugh) Windows. That's Windows XP if it makes any difference.
I put a shortcut to myapp.py on the desktop and it shows up as a little green snake icon, which is really cool and Pythonic. When I double click the icon, the app launches just fine and the tkinter interface does its thing. But Windows also launches a DOS box that just sits on the screen uselessly. It's potentially useful in that "print" statements in the Python app can show messages on the DOS box, but I figure this is a graphical app so I don't plan to show messages that way. Also, it happens I often want to run lots of instances of the app simultaneously, and I want to launch them all by double clicking the icon. That means the whole screen is cluttered with DOS boxes all over the place. Of course I can minimize them by clicking the little underscore in the corner of each one, but that really takes away from the coolness of it all. Question: is there any simple way to arrange to launch the app from the desktop, without also launching a DOS box? By simple I mean without having to mess with some complex packaging/installation system (McMillan installer?) every time I want to modify the app, which during development means a few hundred times a day. I have no desire at all to conceal the source code from the user or anything like that either. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
