New idea? does it already exist?

[El_Oy]

hello to all the nice people that keep on suprising us with wonderfull software :bowdown: .

the other day i was thinking about learning either cocoa or python
(with cocoa bindings) for mac os x and at that point thought it might be best to learn cocoa....

but after being busy softmodding a box of a friend of mine
(and knowing i have to do a lot more in the near future)
i got interested in writing a nice installer.
it wasn't very hard for me to decide to use the python interpreter
included in xbmc (which kicks ass *:kickass: ).

i know that there are other installers out there
and as a matter of fact i have not even checked them out,
just beause i think this would be a nice situation to learn python.
but i don't want to reinvent the wheel.

what i would like to do is this:
- boot into xbmc using either the 007, mechassualt or splintercell
*save game exploit. (i myself have ma so i would start on that.)
- autoexec a installer script that would first of all install the uxe hack.
- then install "packages" that reside in folder.
*these packages can be anything like xbmc, avalaunch,
*evox, unleashx etc.
- the installer should also write the correct settings to all the ini files
*of the packages. like static ip addresses, passwords etc.
- maybe even pick alternative packages up from a server,
*or even better check a public bittorrent tracker for
*new available packages (but this is just some future music
*also because of the legitacy of a public bittorrent tracker
*with packages. however it is done for the slayerz installer)
- and of course because were booted in xbmc,
*maybe play some music in the background
*whilst installing your xbox.. :cool:

so here are my questions:
a) has somebody already written a installer in python for the xbox. i couldn't find one...
b) if it does not already exist, are there people interested in such a installer.
c) better yet, are there people interested in co-writing such a installer,
because atm i can't write one line of python, but that shouldn't be to hard *;) ,
and because i only have very limited time.
d) or any other thoughts.....


pfew... that was one hell of post for my standards.
so i will not totally check it for spell or grammar faults,
english is not my native language *:nuts:

kind regards,

el_oy

[El_Oy]

okay so i must be really stupid......

but i'm following this tutorial from alex and alexpoet,
i've written the first little script: display.py
but when i run it i get a black screen, i can only go back.
afterwards highlighting the display.py script and pressing white
for the debug info doesn't do anything either....

i'm using xbmc 1.1.0 with the project mayhem skin.

the code, just to check i didn't misspell anything:

import xbmc, xbmcgui

class myclass(xbmcgui.window):
* *print "hello world"

mydisplay = myclass()
mydisplay.domodal()
del mydisplay

thanx in advance,

el_oy