Daniel Carrera wrote: <snip>
Well, besides that, Mike, are you a good Python programmer?
I just had an idea. Someone who knows Python could make a "download
manager" for OOo that actually uses BT on the back-end. Suppose you take this BT program you just showed me (and that it works). One could make a very simple GUI on top of it, whose only task is to tell the user that the file is downloading. There would be one such program for each platform.
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If it's any help, I've just been looking into this a bit over the past hour or so for a similar related project.
Python turns out to require a Python interpreter installed on the running machine prior to running the python script.
That's ok-ish for *nix boxes that reasonably often have it already
installed, but not for Windows. There is a way of combining an
interpreter + script into one file that looks and acts like a single executable, but this makes the executable itself really big, thus killing the whole point of a "small file to run, which only gets other bits as needed".
Oh well. So, Python doesn't look like the right choice for this. :(
Not sure what the practical alternatives are. Was hoping to avoid having to learn C programming again (not a real fan of it, and C code written by newbies is often dangerous), and I haven't touched Assembler in about a decade. PHP, which I've good with, has the same set of problems as Python too.
Any other suggestions for a suitable language?
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
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