Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-09 Thread Danny Yoo
> I haven't written any code yet, but I was thinking I would like to test > for either a windows environment (Is an X-Server running) or is this a > strictly console (no X-server) environment and then do the appropriate > thing for each environment. I am not sure that is any clearer, but I > hope i

Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Stevens
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:00:49PM -, Alan Gauld wrote: > >How does one test for a running gui in python? > > > > Can you be more specific? A GUI is a feature of a program. > The GUI is part of the program - although a few programs > can run in either GUI or Text mode, but they are the except

Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-09 Thread Alan Gauld
From: Ken Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yes. Under Linux no x-server running? I guess it really wouldn't be > applicable under a windows enviroment, OK, I see what you wanted now, ignore my previous message . Note that X windows is a protocol and not a GUI. There are several GUI environme

Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-09 Thread Alan Gauld
> How does one test for a running gui in python? > Can you be more specific? A GUI is a feature of a program. The GUI is part of the program - although a few programs can run in either GUI or Text mode, but they are the exception. Can you give an example of what you want to test for? Alan G __

Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-08 Thread John Fouhy
From: Ken Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yes. Under Linux no x-server running? I guess it really wouldn't be > applicable under a windows enviroment, although I would like my code > to be transportable. Just under a MS windows enviroment it would > always be a "gui" environment. What happens

Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-08 Thread Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
chinson Subject: Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:16:03PM +1300, Liam Clarke-Hutchinson wrote: > > Hi Ken, > > How do you mean? I assume you're referring to a non-Windows > environment? In Linux, I'd imagine that using os.popen("ps") wou

Re: [Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-08 Thread Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
day, 9 November 2005 1:12 p.m. To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] Testing for gui How does one test for a running gui in python? Thanks, Ken -- A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet. -- Lao Tsu ___ Tutor mail

[Tutor] Testing for gui

2005-11-08 Thread Ken Stevens
How does one test for a running gui in python? Thanks, Ken -- A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet. -- Lao Tsu ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor