Mozilla, XUL for Python?!
Paddy
paddy3118 at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Feb 25 14:39:00 EST 2003
Gilles Lenfant wrote:
> "Paddy" <paddy3118 at tiscali.co.uk> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 3E5B2DFD.6080801 at tiscali.co.uk...
>
>>Just browsing around, seeing what's new in the easy GUI stakes and I came
>
> across
>
>>http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul
>>
>>Last Time I looked, I couldn't just do one download and start writing
>
> Python code with
>
>>Mozilla as the GUI but somehow they do seem to have similar philosophies
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> of elegant,
>
>>simple, power.
>
>
> Actually, only Javascript programming is possible with XUL/XBL.
> You can notice that all Mozilla GUI control (including the HTML editor and
> mail/news clients) is programmed in Javascript.
>
> --Gilles
>
Giles,
There is a way to program it with Python but things have to be compiled etc, (I think the
abbreviation is XPCOM). All barriers to making Mozilla and XUL a viable GUI frontend to
Python.
Still, one can dream...
Paddy
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