COM/ActiveX

[Jonathan Boarman]

Thanks for the lecture Michael!  Anyway...if anyone has some ideas or wish
to start a set of COM wrappers for VTK, I'm game.  Many of us would benefit
greatly from such a thing.  I know TCL/TK is something some guys are
passionate about, but a COM wrapper would make the VTK more extensible to
other scripting languages such as perlscript, jscript, vb/vbscript, etc.

If there is enough interest, I'd like to make it official.  So, everyone
that is interested in a COM wrapper please email the list or email me
personally.  Lot's of work needs to be done to structure the wrapper most
efficiently, so please email your comments on this also.  If anyone can host
the site dedicated for this, please volunteer; otherwise, I'll figure
something out.

Hope to hear from you soon,
Jonathan Boarman



----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Halle <halazar at media.mit.edu>
To: Ron Inbar <rinbar at netvision.net.il>
Cc: <vtkusers at gsao.med.ge.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: COM/ActiveX


>
> Ron Inbar writes:
> > P.S.  From responses to my previous questions to this mailing list I get
> > a distinct impression that some of you VTK users out there are not too
> > keen on using Microsoft technology.  Please try to put aside any anti-MS
> > prejudice you might have.  Your input will affect decisions I will have
> > to live with for a long time, so please try to evaluate this idea as
> > objectively as you can.
>
> The wonder of open source software systems is that it doesn't matter
> what *my* bias or prejudice is; if enough people in the community want
> something, they can add it themselves.  If I have a personal bias, it
> is to see the open source foundations of VTK continue to develop so
> that people who want to build whatever kind of system they want on top
> of it, can.
>
> However, all developers have some kind of bias towards the tools they
> like to use, whatever the reason they choose them.  It shouldn't be a
> big surprise that people using open-source software might tend to
> favor open-source solutions, and that they might express negative
> opinions about software systems based on proprietary foundations.
>
> But these biases and opinions don't preclude the task from being done,
> it just means that those of us who are biased and opinionated in this
> way aren't likely to do the work.  I hope you'll get a positive
> response to your query, but if you don't maybe you or your company can
> put all the money saved not having to develop VTK functionality on
> your own, and put it towards hiring one of the legions of ActiveX/COM
> hackers out there to do the job.
>
> In contrast, if I wanted to get PowerPoint to read my own image format,
> or be able to parse a Microsoft Word file, I can't do it myself, even
> if lots of people in the world wanted to do the same thing.  Hence
> prejudices.
>
> Open source may mean freely accessible software, but it doesn't mean
> complete software systems for every task or need at no cost or effort.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Michael Halle
> mhalle at media.mit.edu
>
>
>
>
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