I guess the part that I'm missing is, that when I instantiate an xpcom
object X from javascript, that object represents an instance of executing
python code.  If I instantiate an xpcom object Y from that python code, how
do I arrange it such that that object Y has access to variables in the
environment that instantiated X?


On 7/10/07, Mark Hammond <mhammond@[...].au>  wrote:
> 
>  > Picture having an object within the pyshell environment called
>  parentUserInterface
>  > which has methods such as setIndicatorColor(), setIndicatorBlinkRate(),
>  etc...
>  > allowing my user (equipped with appropriate documentation regarding what
>  parts
>  > of the user interface are scriptable to write code like this
>  >
>  > def alert():
>  >    parentUI.setIndicatorColor(255,0,0)
>  >    parentUI.setIndicatorBlinkRate(10)
>  >    return
> 
>  > and call alert() from within his code, confident that it will in fact
>  effect
>  > the user interface in the way she specifies.
> 
>  parentUI can be any xpcom object at all.  It could be implemented in
>  JavaScript or Python (the former might be easier for interaction with the
>  UI).
> 
>  > Does this make sense at all?   I'm either horribly misusing the
>  programming model,
>  > or am missing something pretty basic.
> 
>  I'm almost certainly still missing something; I don't see why you think
>  there would be a problem with this.
> 
>  Cheers,
> 
>  Mark
> 
>