[PyQt] win32api.LoadKeyboardLayout; any solutions for OSX?

[michael h]

Did you see this:

https://bitbucket.org/ronaldoussoren/pyobjc/issue/95/attributeerror-in-some-cases-when-checking



On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Timothy W. Grove <tim_grove at sil.org>
wrote:

>  A personal reply to my question sent me to the following link:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23729704/change-osx-keyboard-layoutinput-source-programmatically-via-terminal-or-appl.
> I seem to have found a solution that worked using PyObjC.
>
> I'm currently using Python 3.3 installed via macports, and I installed the
> appropriate ports for my setup (py33-pyobjc, py33-pyobjc-cocoa).
>
> For my import statement:
>
> from AppKit import NSTextInputContext
>
>  To find the current keyboard being used:
>
> ic = NSTextInputContext.new()
> current_keyboard = ic.selectedKeyboardInputSource()
>
>  To list the currently available keyboards:
>
> keyboards = ic.keyboardInputSources()
>
>  To change the current keyboard (to 'Arabic', for example):
>
> ic.setValue_forKey_('com.apple.keylayout.Arabic',
> 'selectedKeyboardInputSource')
>
>
> Now, that is the good news! This all worked great in my source code, but
> as an app bundle (created with cx_Freeze 4.3.2) it wouldn't run at all.
> I'll include the full error trace at the end of this email, but the
> problems seem to start with the import of AppKit and end with
> objc/_lazyimport.py.
>
> I'm not sure if this points to a 'bug' in objc or something else which
> I've left out of my setup routine, but if anyone has any ideas, I would be
> interested to hear from you.
>
> Best regards,
> Timothy Grove
>
>
>
> On 05/03/2015 14:51, Timothy W. Grove wrote:
>
> I was looking for a way to change keyboard layouts from within a Python 3
> / PyQt4 application. Win32api.LoadKeyboardLayout has come to my rescue on
> Windows, but is anyone aware of a cross-platform or OSX specific solution
> for Apple Mac? Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Best regards,
> Tim
>
>
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/Console3.py",
> line 27, in <module>
>
>     exec(code, m.__dict__)
>
>   File "soosl.py", line 6, in <module>
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1565, in _find_and_load
>
>     return _find_and_load_unlocked(name, import_)
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1532, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>
>     loader.load_module(name)
>
>   File "/Users/timothygrove/Documents/workspace/SooSL/mainwindow.py", line
> 19, in <module>
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1565, in _find_and_load
>
>     return _find_and_load_unlocked(name, import_)
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1532, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>
>     loader.load_module(name)
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/AppKit/__init__.py",
> line 9, in <module>
>
>     import Foundation
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1565, in _find_and_load
>
>     return _find_and_load_unlocked(name, import_)
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1532, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>
>     loader.load_module(name)
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/Foundation/__init__.py",
> line 9, in <module>
>
>     import CoreFoundation
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1565, in _find_and_load
>
>     return _find_and_load_unlocked(name, import_)
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/importlib/_bootstrap.py",
> line 1532, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>
>     loader.load_module(name)
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/CoreFoundation/__init__.py",
> line 20, in <module>
>
>     }, ())
>
>   File
> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/objc/_lazyimport.py",
> line 82, in __init__
>
>     if nm.startswith(pfx):
>
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
>
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