application scripting

[Chris Liechti]

Keith Ray <k1e2i3t4h5r6a7y at 1m2a3c4.5c6o7m> wrote in
news:k1e2i3t4h5r6a7y-CDB5E9.19575425112001 at news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com: 

> In article <Xns9165290659FCcliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.82>,
>  Chris Liechti <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote:
> [...]
>> i assume that the python interpreter is embedded and available for the
>> user that wants to write scripts (eg a menu entry to start the
>> recorded scripts and maybe an interactive console, could be nice for
>> testing). 
> 
> Would you know of any examples of this on the internet?

not for recording, but there is a embedding demo in the source distribution 
of python. and i have made a windows screensaver that exposes some drawing 
commands to python, so that the drawing is controlled by a script.
(http://www.geocities.com/chrisliechti/en/python/index.html)
 
> [...]
>> maybe you want to have a look at some sample COM scripts. the approch
>> is slightly diffrent but its the way msword, excel and may other
>> windows software is scriptable (ms uses vbscript but there are python
>> bindings too (win32com extension modules from active state)) 
> 
> Are there examples of COM-scriptable apps that also support recording?

MS Word creates VBScript that uses COM when recording. i used it to find 
out what Python COM commands have to be used.



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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>