>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Varnon Varnon <varnonz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I'm sure this is a simple problem, or at least I hope it is, but I'm >>>> not an experience programer and the solution eludes me. >>>> >>>> My realm of study is the behavioral sciences. I want to write a >>>> program to help me record data from movie files. >>>> Currently I have a program that can record the time of a keystroke so >>>> that I can use that to obtain frequency, duration and other temporal >>>> characteristics of the behaviors in my movies. >>>> >>>> What I really want, is a way to start playing the movie. Right now I >>>> have to play the movie, then switch to my program. I would love it if >>>> it were possible for me to have my program send a message to quicktime >>>> that says "play." Or any other work around really. If python could >>>> play the movie, that would work just as well. >>>> >>>> I'm using a mac btw. >>>> >>>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> import subprocess >>> subprocess.Popen(["open", "path/to/the/movie.file"]) >>> >>> Docs for the subprocess module: >>> http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html >>> For information on the Mac OS X "open" command, `man open` from Terminal. > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Chris Varnon <varnonz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks, That works wonderfuly. Once I set quicktimes preferences to >> "play on open" it opens and plays the movie exactly like I want. >> But now I need a line of code to bring python to the front again so it >> can read my input. Any more suggestions? > > Add the -g option so focus isn't given to Quicktime (this is covered > in the manpage I pointed you to): > > subprocess.Popen(["open", "-g", "path/to/the/movie.file"]) > > Also, in the future, try to avoid top-posting (see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style). > > Cheers, > Chris > -- > http://blog.rebertia.com >
Wonderful. I totally missed the -g option. I use pygame for the input handling currently. Maybe its not the most elegant solution, but it's what I knew how to do. I just wasn't sure how to do that one last bit. Thanks a bunch! Also, I typicaly don't post over email lists, so I didn't think about the top-posting. This is the prefered method right? Thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
