Fwd: JS-Python Communication using PyXPCom

[Manusheel Gupta]

FYI

Luke has been unable to post in the devel lists. The message that he posts
in this mailing list bounces back. Is there a solution to this problem, or
should I ask him to join the devel lists again?


-Manu



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Luke Closs <luke.closs at socialtext.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: JS-Python Communication using PyXPCom
To: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
Cc: Manusheel Gupta <manu at laptop.org>, devel at lists.laptop.org, Dan Bricklin
<danb at bricklin.com>



On 23-Mar-08, at 11:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Luke Closs
> <luke.closs at socialtext.com> wrote:
>> On 23-Mar-08, at 3:03 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>> thought I already had suggested this a long time ago, but anyway:
>>>
>>> - Create a XPCOM service in JS that exposes the spreadsheet
>>> functionality implemented in JS.
>>>
>>> - Create another XPCOM service in python that exposes the needed
>>> Sugar
>>> functionality.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't this allow you to integrate SocialCalc in any way you
>>> wish?
>>> Creating these two components shouldn't be too hard. Please feel
>>> free
>>> to ask in this mailing list any doubts you have.
>>>
>>> Example of JS service:
>>>
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=sugar;a=tree;f=browser/components/sessionstore;h=8f894b116ad745b0f7bc7c89e4787c89e60a9eb2;hb=309ddec8b769af42f577229bc5e3278c0328f1c4
>>
>> Thank you very much for this link, it's exactly the kind of example I
>> was looking for.  I may have a followup question or two.
>
> Forgot to mention that perhaps we'll need to add to hulahop a function
> for setting the dir from which the components need to be loaded
> (probably a subdirectory inside the activity bundle). Should be quite
> easy.

Ahh, this was one of the missing pieces I was going to ask about.

So just to clarify, this Hulahop/XPCom approach is not the same as
using XULRunner, correct?

I'm going to try to create a hello world type application to try
creating the XPCom service in Javascript.

Luke
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