Re: getting started

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 14:13 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> For a relatively easy starter task, I suggest the "Scripting" task:
>   To start with, it can just be a button (a new LayoutItem type) on the
> Details layout which has some python code (a big string) associated with
> it.

So, I did this. It required a bit more work than I had anticipated.

>  Later we can provide python APIs so that that script can interact
> with Glom.

But this still remains to be done, and it shouldn't be too difficult.
You could look at how I implement the python API for the "record" object
for calculated fields.

We need to implement python API to, for instance, 
- Go to a Table.
- Go to the Details or List view.
- Go to Find mode or Data mode.
- Go to record with a specific primary key  
- Print a named report.

If anyone wants to, they can port that use of the python C API to
boost::python, but I wasn't very impressed with it when I looked at it.

> I recommend jhbuild to create a development environment in a separate
> prefix.

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