+//----------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Function to test if the Display (or whatever is the platform equivallent)
+// can be connected to. This is accessable from wxPython as a staticmethod of
+// wx.App called DisplayAvailable().
+
+
+bool wxPyTestDisplayAvailable()
+{
+#ifdef __WXGTK__
+ Display* display;
+ display = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
+ if (display == NULL)
+ return false;
+ XCloseDisplay(display);
+ return true;
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __WXMAC__
+ // This is adapted from Python's Mac/Modules/MacOS.c in the
+ // MacOS_WMAvailable function.
+ bool rv;
+ ProcessSerialNumber psn;
+
+ /*
+ ** This is a fairly innocuous call to make if we don't have a window
+ ** manager, or if we have no permission to talk to it. It will print
+ ** a message on stderr, but at least it won't abort the process.
+ ** It appears the function caches the result itself, and it's cheap, so
+ ** no need for us to cache.
+ */
+#ifdef kCGNullDirectDisplay
+ /* On 10.1 CGMainDisplayID() isn't available, and
+ ** kCGNullDirectDisplay isn't defined.
+ */
+ if (CGMainDisplayID() == 0) {
+ rv = false;
+ } else
+#endif
+ {
+ // Also foreground the application on the first call as a side-effect.
+ if (GetCurrentProcess(&psn) < 0 || SetFrontProcess(&psn) < 0) {
+ rv = false;
+ } else {
+ rv = true;
+ }
+ }
+ return rv;
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __WXMSW__
+ // TODO...
+ return true;
+#endif
+}
+
+