On 4/11/07, Chris Stoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, am I just thinking about this wrong? How are people embedding > IronPython in their apps?
I believe it really depends upon the application's objectives. From just being onlist for awhile it seems to me most developers are creating something that is working behind the scene of the app itself. It also sounds to me that people place IronPython in a .Net app so the user just uses .py files for the actual day-to-day work, sort of a best of both worlds solution. I originally got interested in IronPython much the same way. I am not sure if you have taken a look at a 'console' I have thrown out there. I original created it to help me turn Python modules into IP friendly ones. http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/irontextbox.asp I am not too happy with how it stands right now but it is very easy to place in a .Net app and you can have several. It is very easy to customize to your liking. I have been looking at a redesign making it very similar to the VS IronPython console window. I was hoping to make some hooks into the VS dlls but it is very complicated and it looks to me that I would need to make a bunch of custom classes, which unfortunately, I don't have the time to due right now. If no one beats me to it I might have something in 6 months or so. I also have to design it so it doesn't depend upon VS dlls, incase the user doesn't have them, or not, I haven't decided yet. > It seems strange (and inefficient) to have to > create a new PythonEngine and add all the references and expose globals > every time I want to execute script. Is there a way to share some of this > state? Can this be done using EngineModules? Not knowing the exact details of your app and why you would need to send messages to multiple consoles, it sounds like you would need to develop your own classes to handle the messaging. From what I have derived from all of IP's console classes, this is not a built in feature but I could be very much mistaken. I do believe it can be done, just that you would have to develop your own classes to handle your objective and I bet there is at least two different ways you can design them. -- Later, JoeSox _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
