there are no crazy questions there is, however, bat-guano-crazy geoff canyon anyway, i think you will have to write the parser, linker, lexical analyzer, etc., and all the other pre-compiler stuff that you would have to write for any language. i'm not aware of something like a DLL for python. even better, while we're wondering, wouldn't it be great if we could implement any interpreted grammar? i'd love it, because our erp software is written in a a BASIC-COBOL-Fortran thing. I could dump all the 1970's-era tools for managing forms and databases and replace them with something nicer.
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 4:04 PM Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I've been playing with Python, and it has a lot of nice qualities, but a > built-in GUI isn't one of them (no apologies to tkinter). > > So it would be interesting/nice to be able to open LC, add a button to a > stack, and put some python into the script of that button and have it just > work, with access to the rest of the LC stack/controls as usual. > > Obviously that's not possible, but how close can we come? I assume it would > be possible to write a shell command to trigger a python script, but that > seems complex and sub-optimal, especially when thinking about having to > bundle together all the bits and bobs from the LC UI to pass as arguments > to the Python script instead of having it able to just reference what it > needs on the fly. > > Anyway, wondering if anyone else has thought about this. > > gc > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
