On Aug 3, 2005, at 7:50 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> 
>  On Aug 3, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Ben Willmore wrote:
> 
> 
> > I was excited to see on Bob Ippolito's website that he has updated  
> > OS X pygame so it will run without either pythonw or being in an  
> > app bundle.  However, I found when running pygame (today's CVS)  
> > from fink python2.4, I got the following error:
> >
> > ---
> > [ben@assam ben] $ python2.4
> > Python 2.4.1 (#1, Aug  2 2005, 23:12:54)
> > [GCC 4.0.0 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5026)] on darwin
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more  
> > information.
> > >>> import pygame
> > pygame.init()
> > >>> pygame.init()
> > (6, 0)
> > >>> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((468, 60))
> > 2005-08-03 21:37:01.917 python2.4[26902] *** Uncaught exception:  
> > <NSInternalInconsistencyException> Error (1002) creating CGSWindow
> > Trace/BPT trap
> >
> 
>  The actual problem is that you're spending too much time before  
>  creating the screen... your fix works around that problem by  
>  calling NSApplicationLoad on import, but it breaks the detection  
>  that goes on later in pygame.macosx to see if pygame is already  
>  running in the context of an application and will break other things.
> 
>  Try this instead, with no patch:
>  python -i -c "import pygame; pygame.init()"

s/screen/window manager connection/

For whatever reason, Mac OS X gives you a very short amount of time  
after process startup (or maybe linking to ApplicationServices)  
before making a window server connection.  AFAIK, if you don't make  
one soon, you can't ever make one with public API (and I'm not sure  
what the private API is).

-bob