[omniORB] Using omniORBpy to develop CORBA testing applications

[Duncan Grisby]

On Saturday 24 March, Craig Rodrigues wrote:

> Can anyone recomend references for learning TKInter GUI programming
> in Python?

I've found Fredrik Lundh's introduction useful:

  http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/

> You know what would be cool...if someone (ie. not me :) wrote a
> backend for omniidl which took an IDL file as input, and generated
> an automated test harness for it in Python.

That would indeed be cool. We have actually done some work here where
you annotate IDL files with Python code describing tests. An omniidl
back-end then generates test code including the Python annotations.
The annotations live in comments or pragmas, so they don't affect IDL
compilers which don't understand them. Unfortunately, nobody is
working on that at the moment, but the work proves that it is possible
to do.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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