RE: A primate's worries about Unix and GNOME

[Steve Homer <shomer fmco com>]

Okay, I see this problem has two distinct sides.

Can I use the functionality from one application/tool in my own code easily
as 

a) An set of objects, methods, properties and events. Constructed into a
decent object model.
b) Include an aspect of the GUI of Gnumeric (for example) in my loan
calculator.

I know that (b) is looked after by bonobo.

(a) however is one of the few reasons that I program in VB is the ease of
including relatively complex ideas very very easily, send an email in 3
lines of code anyone? Particularly I'm thinking of the package(s) I code for
a living which basically use the object models of Word, Excel and what have
you to produce a reporting package. Not particularly cool perhaps, but v
useful. So the question boils down to whether we can get Gnome apps to
expose there objects, and access them via a wide set of languages.

-----Original Message-----
From: allbery@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:allbery@ece.cmu.edu]
Sent: 30 July 1999 14:37
To: davew-gnome@triluminary.cs.haverford.edu
Cc: "recipient.list.not.shown"
Subject: Re: A primate's worries about Unix and GNOME


On 30 Jul, David G. Wonnacott wrote:
+-----
| 1) Does CORBA or anything else make it easy to build tools that
|    provide both a software interface and a GUI?
+--->8

The whole point of CORBA is communication between software interfaces. 
Think of it as a "smart pipe" which is bidirectional and allows
components on different machines to communicate via method calls and
callbacks.

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