What are COM-enabled applications?

[Tempo]

As the subject of this post suggests, I have one question; what are
COM-enabled applications? I believe Microsoft Word is one of these
apps, but what else? Is a web browser, Paint, Solitare, games, etc? I'm
not sure if it varies from operating system to operating system, but I
am talking about COM applications in Windows. Thanks for any and all of
your help and time.

[Ravi Teja]

Re: What are COM-enabled applications?

COM is Windows only. (Actually there is DCOM for Linux, but that's
another story).

Read about it here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_object_model

[Cameron Laird]

Re: What are COM-enabled applications?

In article <1140580133.293 283.322870@f14g 2000cwb.googleg roups.com>,
Tempo <bradfordh@gmai l.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>As the subject of this post suggests, I have one question; what are
>COM-enabled applications? I believe Microsoft Word is one of these
>apps, but what else? Is a web browser, Paint, Solitare, games, etc? I'm
>not sure if it varies from operating system to operating system, but I
>am talking about COM applications in Windows. Thanks for any and all of
>your help and time.
>[/color]

As Mr. Teja has already written in response, COM is a big, and
in some ways dated, subject. To answer your specific questions:
yes, most Web browsers I know for Windows *are* COM-enabled,
Solitaire typically isn't, and I'm not near a Win* machine now
to confirm that Paint is.

Python has good COM abilities. While, to my surprise, I just
realized that I'm unaware of anyone having put together a COM
"explorer" with Python, it would be a straightforward project.
In the meantime, <URL:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/doc...ngComConstants >
might interest you.

[Duncan Booth]

Re: What are COM-enabled applications?

Cameron Laird wrote:
[color=blue]
> Python has good COM abilities. While, to my surprise, I just
> realized that I'm unaware of anyone having put together a COM
> "explorer" with Python, it would be a straightforward project.[/color]

Don't the tools that come with Python's COM support do enough for you?

....\lib\site-packages\win32c om\client\combr owse.py for example. (Or inside
PythonWin it is on the Tools menu).

[Cameron Laird]

Re: What are COM-enabled applications?

In article <Xns9772C3EDC53 E2duncanbooth@1 27.0.0.1>,
Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@s uttoncourtenay. org.uk> wrote:[color=blue]
>Cameron Laird wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Python has good COM abilities. While, to my surprise, I just
>> realized that I'm unaware of anyone having put together a COM
>> "explorer" with Python, it would be a straightforward project.[/color]
>
>Don't the tools that come with Python's COM support do enough for you?
>
>...\lib\site-packages\win32c om\client\combr owse.py for example. (Or inside
>PythonWin it is on the Tools menu).[/color]

I was quibbling about the difference between a polished application
and a toolkit; please, I don't want anyone to think that I AT ALL
disparage the achievement of win32.

Another recommendation for the original poster: <URL:
http://www.python.org/windows/win32c...ClientCom.html >.