This patch improves the L&F of IDLE on OSX. The changes are conditionalized on
being in an IDLE.app bundle on darwin. This does a slight reorganisation of the
menus and adds support for file-open events.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py b/Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py
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+"""
+A number of function that enhance IDLE on MacOSX when it used as a normal
+GUI application (as opposed to an X11 application).
+"""
+import sys
+
+def runningAsOSXApp():
+ """ Returns True iff running from the IDLE.app bundle on OSX """
+ return (sys.platform == 'darwin' and 'IDLE.app' in sys.argv[0])
+
+def addOpenEventSupport(root, flist):
+ """
+ This ensures that the application will respont to open AppleEvents, which
+ makes is feaseable to use IDLE as the default application for python files.
+ """
+ def doOpenFile(*args):
+ for fn in args:
+ flist.open(fn)
+
+ # The command below is a hook in aquatk that is called whenever the app
+ # receives a file open event. The callback can have multiple arguments,
+ # one for every file that should be opened.
+ root.createcommand("::tk::mac::OpenDocument", doOpenFile)
+
+def hideTkConsole(root):
+ root.tk.call('console', 'hide')
+
+
+def setupApp(root, flist):
+ """
+ Perform setup for the OSX application bundle.
+ """
+ if not runningAsOSXApp(): return
+
+ hideTkConsole(root)
+ addOpenEventSupport(root, flist)