On 2/22/09 1:42 PM, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
>  2009/2/23 Philip Semanchuk<philip@[...].com>:

>  <snip>
> 
> > 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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