Woah!!! This sounds f'in marvellous, I've had an idea for sometime about creating HTML pages from Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents on the fly so to speak, but have never had the time to look into it seriously. This Zope/COM object sounds like a good starting point though. Any chance of allowing 'select' (that's me by the way 8^)) developers have a look-see. Yours in-wonderment-at-the-zope-machinery'ly Phil phil@philh.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Everitt <Paul@digicool.com> To: <zope-dev@zope.org> Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 12:57 PM Subject: [Zope-dev] DISCUSS: Plea for help!
(Cough, cough, ...) HELP!!!!
We have a golden opportunity for Zope. Mark Hammond has offered to let us get several thousand words in the O'Reilly Python for Windows book, slated for August/September release. Anybody that knows how O'Reilly works knows that there isn't much time for changes.
I'd like to do something that fits in nicely with the tone of the book (Win32 and COM). While we could just show Zope running, that doesn't reinforce anything else in the book.
However, we've had lying around for a long time something *really* cool -- a COM External Method. It was written for Principia about a year ago. As I remember, you put in a COM object (e.g. Excel.OpenWorkbook) and Bobo/Principia/Zope marshals whatever form data is needed, calls the COM function, and returns the result. Kind of magic.
Here's what we need:
1) Overhaul of the COMExternalMethod code (one file, 150 lines with comments) to make it a good Zope citizen.
2) The words that describe Zope and give an example using it.
If you're interested, speak up -- but *only* if you can turn it around in a week (gulp).
--Paul
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