[Zope-dev] DISCUSS: Plea for help!

Phil Harris phil@media-1.ml.uwcm.ac.uk
Fri, 7 May 1999 13:59:45 +0100


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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