Re: [pyxpcom] Why isn't everyone in the Python world using this?
by Shane Caraveo other posts by this author
Feb 22 2009 2:42PM messages near this date
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Re: [pyxpcom] Why isn't everyone in the Python world using this?
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[pyxpcom] A first Python / XULRunner app - impressions and problems
On 2/22/09 1:42 PM, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> 2009/2/23 Philip Semanchuk<philip@[...].com>:
> <snip>
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> > Components can't be new-style classes (i.e. inherit from object). This
> > isn't a show-stopper, but it is annoying. It's also not that easy to
> > discover as the related errors are cryptic. I burned some time
> > debugging that.
>
> Is that still the case? I admit that my testing of xpcom objects has
> been limited (not much more than hello world with a couple of extra
> methods), but I've been using 'object' classes and they seem to work
> fine.
We have patches for that already, I'm not certain if (but believe they
are) they are in pyxpcomext. I also did a bunch of work on the pyxpcom
exception object a while back that makes cross-language exception
reporting a bit better.
> >> And combining this with SqlAlchemy gives a
> >> killer platform for database development. I just need to find (or
> >> create in XBL) a good data-grid control [1].
> > Check out the treeview control.
>
> Yes, I've looked at the treeview control. Great for viewing data, but
> I could not get it to behave anything close to like I wanted for data
> entry. Maybe there is a way that I have not found yet - it is still
> early days.
There may be a grid somewhere in some application, but otherwise you'd
probably want to build it in xbl using the richlistbox element.
Regards,
Shane
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