RE: [Pythoncard-users] component object model

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

> From: Steven D. Arnold
>
> Has any thought been given to a possible object component model?  It
> seems we'd want to use one that was non-proprietary and open-source.
> The KOM/Kparts model seems nice, from what I've read.  The only thing
> I might object to is, if it used Qt and that couldn't be easily
> removed, I wouldn't want to get into a situation where one couldn't
> build a PythonCard app without paying TrollTech.
>
> Another option is the GNOME object model.  I don't know much about
> that, other than that it exists.

I know less than you about GNOME or KOM/Kparts. If your talking about
something like COM, so that we can have plug in components for PythonCard,
then about the only discussion we've had was about XPCOM. I can't get to
ASPN right now, so I can't point you to the Python XPCOM mailing list. I'm
hoping that will be a good system to piggyback on.

I think that it is unlikely we will use any Qt stuff. Does anything outside
of COM on Windows actually have many components available today? One thing
that makes COM slightly less important for us than say Visual Basic apps is
that it should be relatively easy to write custom widgets using Python and
possibly wrapping existing widgets to make compound widgets. That is an
experiment someone should try fairly soon.

ka