Re: Wrapping dia interfaces to enable in Python

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp martianrock com>]

You can also use PyGTK's utilities for wrapping GObjects with Python. 
It is very easy to do.

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J5

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:57, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
> This is probably an inappropriate suggestion to people who know way more 
> than I do about Dia.  But I have used SWIG (http://swig.org) very 
> successfully to provide a complex C library as a Perl-accessible 
> interface in the past, and it also supports Python.  It didn't take very 
> long to figure out how to use it.  You basically feed it the .h files 
> along with additional guidance as needed, and it emits a shim layer for 
> mating the (Perl/Tkl/Python/Guile/Java/Ruby/Mzscheme/ 
> PHP/caml/C#/chicken scheme/javascript/eiffel) scripting language to the 
> underlying C or C++ library.
>
> Of course you have issues with mating the data types, but these can be 
> worked out pretty easily.
>
> Carol Lerche
>
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