Scripting Languages

Rather than needing special support for the accessibility framework, a scripting language only needs a CORBA binding and be able to activate components with Bonobo activation.

Python can be used for this purpose using the pyorbit and gnome-python packages.

Unlike some Python ORBs, pyorbit takes advantage of ORBit's introspection features, allowing it to load up interfaces at runtime. This can happen in one of three ways:

• a type library can be loaded, which contains information about a related set of interfaces.
• IDL files can be parsed at runtime to create interface info.
• If you connect to a server implemented with ORBit, pyorbit can download the interface info from it.

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