Fun with SWIG

Spent a long while trying to figure out user input from a mouse click. Looked into C++, openCV, and python options, none were working out very well so I've decided to leave that for now. I'll get the system working with text or argument input first.

I've been working and testing the code by just compiling the C++ code, time to make sure I can still swig it into python code. Still worked great just running from the mintty window, but then I tried creating a python file that would call the wrapped code. This proved more difficult that anticipated. In the wrapper commands I was somehow not creating the necessary file for the wrapped code to be treated as an importable module. Lots of googling and reading later I discovered distutils, a python setup file that takes care of all of the necessary flags, files, etc. It builds the file necessary to make an importable module and cuts down on my compilation code as well :
swig -c++ -python example.i
python setup.py build_ext --inplace

sorry no pictures this post :(

[EDIT: 27 Nov 2011]
Well I got a system in maya working that generates a wonderful SSS shader based on user selected images.
Went to build in the flushing generation and even though I got the import working yesterday apparently it only works in a Unix environment. Trying to run through a windows environment I'm back with the same "No module named _example" error...

References:
http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Python.html#Python_nn9 (31.2.2 - 31.2.6)


Python GUI References:
http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2010help/CommandsPython/textField.html
http://www.rtrowbridge.com/blog/2010/02/maya-python-ui-example/
http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2011help/CommandsPython/fileBrowserDialog.html
Good Code to Have: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-August/1252307.html

Mouse Click Input References:
http://dasl.mem.drexel.edu/~noahKuntz/openCVTut3.html
http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~bouakaz/OpenCV-0.9.5/docs/ref/OpenCVRef_Highgui.htm#decl_cvSetMouseCallback
http://www.ida.liu.se/~ETE257/timetable/LecturePythonPygame2.html
GetCursorPos()
http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/123456
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/windows/21620/