[JDEV] BeOS Client

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Joseph Jones,
| I thought there was already a port of Python to the Be done by Chris 
| Herborth? Or are you adding a native UI module to it?

My modules complement Chris' port.

| Hmm...AFAIK, the current state of BeOS Python lacks any Tcl/Tk support 
| for UI development. This would mean that, to use Python there would 
| still have to be some C++ application that somehow had a way of talking 
| to a Python parser. Is this possible without doing some sort of client/
| server thing? (I.E. calling into a pythion module as a shared module 
| instead of sending messages to another running application.)

1. Yes, we have no Tk.  2. We can however use the BeOS API for graphics.
3. A superficial C++ program that wraps Python is quite feasible and will
probably be the way to go for any semi-serious application, unless someone
can figure out some way to attach BeOS application information to a script
instead of the script's interpreter.

Choice of language is completely up to you, just wanted to point out
that unlike Java, Python might be worth looking at for its XML support;
whether there's anything there, I actually don't know.  For more on that,
discussion should probably be directed to the Python team, who I expect
will actually know what DOM means (unlike me, though if my guess is right
it does sound like something the Python community would take to), or me
for the Python BeOS API situation.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu