[Inteproxy-commits] r96 - in trunk: . inteproxy

[scm-commit@wald.intevation.org]

Author: bh
Date: 2007-05-16 15:09:35 +0200 (Wed, 16 May 2007)
New Revision: 96

Modified:
   trunk/ChangeLog
   trunk/inteproxy/resources.py
Log:
* inteproxy/resources.py (share_dir): When running InteProxy as an
exectuable created with py2exe, determine the value of share_dir
relative to the filename of the executable.


Modified: trunk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- trunk/ChangeLog	2007-05-16 10:36:17 UTC (rev 95)
+++ trunk/ChangeLog	2007-05-16 13:09:35 UTC (rev 96)
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-05-16  Bernhard Herzog  <bh at intevation.de>
+
+	* inteproxy/resources.py (share_dir): When running InteProxy as an
+	exectuable created with py2exe, determine the value of share_dir
+	relative to the filename of the executable.
+
 2007-05-16  Stephan Holl  <stephan.holl at intevation.de>
 
 	* doc/InteProxy-de.odt: typos

Modified: trunk/inteproxy/resources.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/inteproxy/resources.py	2007-05-16 10:36:17 UTC (rev 95)
+++ trunk/inteproxy/resources.py	2007-05-16 13:09:35 UTC (rev 96)
@@ -7,11 +7,23 @@
 
 """Access to resources bundled with InteProxy"""
 
+import sys
 import os
 import gettext as py_gettext
 
-share_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), os.pardir, "share")
 
+# determine share_dir, the name of the directroy containing the resource
+# files like images and translations.  When run directly from the source
+# tree, the share_dir can be determined from the directory containing
+# this python module.  When run from a frozen windows executable created
+# with py2exe that doesn't work, but we can start from the directory
+# containing the executable.
+if getattr(sys, "frozen", None) == "windows_exe":
+    _base_dir = os.path.dirname(sys.executable)
+else:
+    _base_dir =  os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), os.pardir)
+share_dir = os.path.join(_base_dir, "share")
+
 def gettext(message):
     """Translates the message according to the user's locale.