Visio like library for Python?

John Hall wweexxsseessssaa at telusplanet.net
Wed Apr 9 06:21:49 EDT 2003


On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 09:55:00 GMT, skywalkerpackage at hotmail.com
(Johannes Eble) wrote:

>is there a library available for Python that behaves similar to MS
>Visio? 

The OpenOffice.org Draw module has a lot of functionality with which
you could perhaps emulate Visio. IIRC, there are some
reasonably-priced commercial Template kits available, tailored to
particular areas of interest (though, when I think about it, perhaps
that was not for OO0/Draw).

Controlling it from another program has until recently been difficult,
primarily because the documentation was incomplete and fragmented.
But OO recently released an SDK which address all or most of those
concerns.

I don't know if this will help with Python though. Someone has written
Py-UNO Bridge:
http://www.budischewski.com/pyuno/python-bridge.html
(UNO - Universal Network Objects is the OOo component model)

OpenOffice developer's guide:
http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html

"""
Currently exist bindings for Java, C, C++ (compiler dependent, please
see http://porting.openoffice.org for a list of supported platforms),
OLE Automation and Python(in a alpha state). 
"""
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