Python -> Sis with Mac

[Vitsaus]

Is there a way to make .py -> .sis with OS X(Leopard, 10.5.2). Py2Sis does not seem to work with Leopard.

[tsharju]

Is there a way to make .py -> .sis with OS X(Leopard, 10.5.2). Py2Sis does not seem to work with Leopard.

I've used Ensymble (http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl928/ensymble.html). Works like a charm.

- Teemu

[Vitsaus]

Thanks for help. Seems good. I will give it a try.

Edit: I can confirm: It works like a charm

I've used Ensymble (http://www.nbl.fi/~nbl928/ensymble.html). Works like a charm.

- Teemu

[nufun]

It's ok for me, but I cannot understand how to get it work to pakage more files!
If I just want to convert pys60 to sis I got no problems, but my application need a jpg as background! how do I add it to my sis file?

[bogdan.galiceanu]

It's ok for me, but I cannot understand how to get it work to pakage more files!
If I just want to convert pys60 to sis I got no problems, but my application need a jpg as background! how do I add it to my sis file?

Hi nufun and welcome to the Python Discussion Board. You can use Ensymble's simplesis command.

[nufun]

Thanks for the replay! Now I created the sis file from the folder,
but after I've installed the application on my phone, it is no shown in the prefered installed application. I don't know how to lunch it. I can only uninstall it!

[bogdan.galiceanu]

So basically here are the steps you should take:
1)Make a sis file from your .py script using py2sis (I assume you've already done this)
2)Make a sis file from the folder with the image using simplesis
Optional:3)Use mergesis to combine the 2 sis files into 1 which you then install. If you don't do this, just install the 2 sis files separately.

The icon for the program from your .py file should show up in you "Applications" folder in the menu and the folder from the folder sis should be in the appropriate location (it doesn't have an icon as it's not a real program, just a folder).

Please check and let us know if you still have problems or questions

[nufun]

Ok.. I'll try to understand if my steps are all rights..

1. py2sis myapp.py --> myapp.sis
2. simplesis the folder containing ONLY the jpg background image --> jpg.sis
3. mergesis myapp.sis (as infile) and jpg.sis (as mergefile) --> test.sis
4. installing test.sis on my phone I get prompted "install myapp?" and then "install jpg?". Confirm everything.
5. lunch myapp
6. something is lunched but it immediately stops.

I guess the problem is image path in the python script cause if I try to install a version without background everything goes fine..

I suppose the jpg is installed in !:\system\apps\myapp\ is it correct?

[bogdan.galiceanu]

I suppose the jpg is installed in !:\system\apps\myapp\ is it correct?

The jpg is placed where in the according level of the file system.

If you made the jpg file into a sis, it will be installed on C (phone memory) or E (memory card) depending on which one you selected when prompted during the installation.
So the path to the image (the one written in the .py file) should be "C:\myimage.jpg" for example.

If you were to package "myfolder" along with the image in it, a strange thing would happen. Only the contents of the folder (in this case the image) would be packaged (so the image would still be in "C:\myimage.jpg" regardless of the attempt to keep it in that specific folder). So in order to package a folder you would have to place it into another folder and write the mergesis for "somefolder\myfolder". In this case the image would be in "C:\myfolder\myimage.jpg".

I'm sorry if this is confusing but if you have any questions the community is here for you

[nufun]

I got it!!!

Thanks a lot! You were fundamental!

[jethro.fn]

If the JPEG is not meant to be accessed from anywhere else but your application, you can pack a whole directory tree with just the py2sis command of Ensymble. Everything in the directory tree can then be found in the application private directory.

Example:

$ ls -Lp mypys60app
mypys60app:
data/         default.py       supportmodule.py

mypys60app/data:
image1.jpg    image2.jpg

$ ensymble.py --uid=myuid --version=1.2.3 --drive=C mypys60app

This will create a SIS file mypys60app_1_2_3.sis that, once installed on the phone has the following structure:

  private\myuid\
    data\
      image1.jpg
      image2.jpg
    default.py
    supportmodule.py

(The SIS file will also contain other necessary support files, not shown here for simplicity. SIS files created with the simplesis command do not have these extra files.)

[nufun]

wow! that's cool! but how can I declare my jpg path in the code?
I would leave the possibility to choose the destination drive so I have tried

bg_image = u".\\data\\myimage.jpg"

but I got error..

[jethro.fn]

wow! that's cool! but how can I declare my jpg path in the code?

sys.path[0] contains path to the private directory:

import sys
import os

bg_image = os.path.join(sys.path[0], "data", "myimage.jpg")

...

[amaj1407]

thank you jethro, but i used sys.path[0] and got system error (-2) and my app does not run at all

[nufun]

I'm having some problem too.
I tried with different phones and different drive and I got errors.