[SOLVED]using py 101 with indigo

excuse my simple questions. Here is what I would like to do

when I do
echo "alias indigohost='/Library/Application\ Support/Perceptive\ Automation/Indigo\ 6/IndigoPluginHost.app/Contents/MacOS/IndigoPluginHost'" >> ~/.bashrc
and then after close / open terminal
indigohost -i
gives an error message "command not found"

just
'/Library/Application\ Support/Perceptive\ Automation/Indigo\ 6/IndigoPluginHost.app/Contents/MacOS/IndigoPluginHost' -i
works


and can I use idle to write code that calls indigo

just at the very beginning.

any help appreciated.

Karl

Try putting it in your .bash_profile instead of .bashrc.

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echo "alias indigohost='/Library/Application\ Support/Perceptive\ Automation/Indigo\ 6/IndigoPluginHost.app/Contents/MacOS/IndigoPluginHost'" >>~/.bash_profile

You can also forcibly reload a file into the bash environment with ". <filename>". So executing

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. ~/.bash_profile

will reload the bash profile without having to close then re-open the terminal.

thanks

and what do you use to write and test your py code - with indigo?

Karl

If you're talking about testing embedded Python code, I use the IndigoPluginHost just like above. If we're talking about plugin development, I use Xcode to write the code (mostly because it's already installed and thus convenient) and my production Indigo server to test the plugins.