[Samanoske]

Ahoi folks,

during my studies I had to get used to use python and really started to love this programming language. Now, I wanted to use python to script visual effects onto the OS X desktop. There are easy ways to manipulate images (www.pythonware.com) and so forth. But I have no clue how to access the Desktop directly via python, i.e. to patch some text on top of the actual backdrop as Geektool is doing it.

Could anyone give me some links/starting points how to do such a task ?

thanks for your help.

[Chuckit]

You'll probably want to use PyObjC. Set an NSWindow's level to kCGDesktopWindowLevel and you're drawing on the desktop.

[Samanoske]

interesting. I have to check this out. I saw PyObjC is linked to the XCode tool. Never used that neither but I guess the tutorial on the PyObjC site will help me out there. Or are there any other sources ? Something like tutorials for small and easy ObjC tools.

Thanks for your help