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What are COM-enabled applications?

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.

Feb 22 '06 #1
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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

Feb 22 '06 #2
In article <11**********************@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>,
Tempo <br*******@gmail.com> wrote:
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.


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.
Feb 22 '06 #3
Cameron Laird wrote:
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.


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

....\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\combrowse.py for example. (Or inside
PythonWin it is on the Tools menu).
Feb 22 '06 #4
In article <Xn*************************@127.0.0.1>,
Duncan Booth <du**********@suttoncourtenay.org.uk> wrote:
Cameron Laird wrote:
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.


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

...\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\combrowse.py for example. (Or inside
PythonWin it is on the Tools menu).


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 >.
Feb 24 '06 #5

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