[Tutor] RE: simple MS office addins, spambayes style (Jeff Kowalczyk)

[Mike Hansen]

As much as I love python, this doesn't seem appropriate. I'm not sure 
why you'd want to do this. Those who'd use the addins would need to 
install python to get them to work. It  makes distribution more complicated.

> Subject:
> [Tutor] simple MS office addins, spambayes style
> From:
> Jeff Kowalczyk <jtk at yahoo.com>
> Date:
> Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:05:27 -0400
> To:
> tutor at python.org
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>I'm interested in bundling python code into office addins. I want to get
>rid of VBA for various object-model manipulation functions that I write to
>automate end-user tasks.
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>The Spambayes Outlook plugin is extremely impressive and I would like to
>emulate it, but its getting a bit daunting to factor out the minumum code
>necessary for a non-graphical user function library.
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>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/spambayes/spambayes/Outlook2000/addin.py
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>Does anyone have any 'hello world' office addin samples along these lines?
>I'm just looking to import the host object model, then expose a few
>functions to the 'run macros' interface, or something equivalent.
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>I'd like to generalize the addin boilerplate code across other office Apps
>supporting addins if I can, so I want to start with the simplest possible
>python code and work my way up.
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>Thanks.
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