Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Claire Blair wrote: > > >>I am trying to write a VB6 (not VB.Net) application that has a console >>window that allows Python command to be typed at the prompt. >> >>The idea is so that, I can have full Python scripting from within my >>application. I should be able to type commands from a Python script >>(include import etc, so I can use other Python libraries). In other >>words, I want to provide a complete (or almost complete) interactive >>Python Scripting environment from within my application - so that I >>enter commands in the VB6 console, and I get the (text) results >>displayed in my VB6 console, and in the case of a graphic output (let >>say I am importing wxPython for graphing functionality), I would have >>the graph display after I have typed my command in my VB6 console. >> >>My initial route was to try to embed the Python interpreter, using BOOST >>Python, writing a Win32 DLL around that and then calling the functions >>from VB6. But I had various problems with that approach - so I am now >>looking to use a Python COM server approach (although I would have >>preferred not to touch COM). >> >>I have done a lot of Googling and research online - but I can't find >>anything remotely useful, taht shows me how to do what I want to do. If >>anyone has done something similar to what I am trying to do, or knows of >>any links that may show me how to do provide a VB6 frontend GUI (i.e. >>console) fo ruse with Python, I will be very grateful. > > > You keep talking about "a console", but OTOH you want to use wxPython - > which clearly is not console, but GUI. So I'm not really sure what you are > after.
Yes, this seems to be confusing a lot of people. I want to be able to use various existing plotting libraries (most of which use wxPython or pyOpenGL). The end result is that (assuming my paths etc have been correctly set), I can type something like this in my console: >>> import someGraphingModule >>> # a few other commands to fetch data etc ... >>> >>> # The following line will then open a window (using >>> # wxPython, wxOpenGL (or whatever windowing library is >>> # is provided by module someGraphingModule >>> someGraphingModule.plotdata > > It might be possible to make wx render into a given window-handle. > > But may I ask: what is the reason for using VB at all? Why not do the > GUI-frontend in wxPython? > > Diez Simple. its because my main application (the GUI that is), is written in VB6. I have a MDI application (i.e. many child windows in the same application), and I want to use one of these windows as a console to inteactively type Python commands. If I were to use wxPython, I would not be able to treat the console 'the same' as the other child windows in the application (i.e. minimize, close all etc). Maybe a simpler way to think of this is to imagine that I am writing a PythonWin clone in VB6. What I am asking here, is how can I create the 'Interactive Window' ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
