version of JavaScript) a dominant role in QT by releasing the QT Script for 

Applications toolkit (QSA), which is tightly integrated into their framework:

http://www.trolltech.com/products/qsa/

QSA plays the same role as VBA for Windows applications and is very easy to 

use for QT/KDE programmers. QSA is released under a commercial license for 

Linux/Unix (X11), Windows, and Mac platforms. In addition to that, QSA is also 

licensed under the GNU GPL for free software development on the Linux/Unix 

(X11) and Mac OS X platforms. 

KJSEmbed

A very similar approach is the KDE JavaScript Engine KJSEmbed with bindings 

for QT/KDE and the its interprocess communication mechanisms. You can find 

KSJEmbed (which is licensed under the LGPL) and a lot of documentation at:

http://xmelegance.org/kjsembed

http://www.sourcextreme.com/presentations/KJSEmbed/

In Example C 2 you see how easy it is to write to a simple HTML browser with 

JavaScript using this toolkit.

Example: C 2   Basic HTML browser with KJSEmbedd

#!/usr/bin/env kjscmd

var url =  http://www.kde.org/ ;

if ( application.args.length )

   url = application.args[0];

var mw = new KMainWindow();

var box = new QHBox( mw );

mw.setCentralWidget(box);

var view = Factory.createROPart( "text/html", box, "view" );

view.connect(view.child(0), 

 openURLRequest(const KURL&,const KParts::URLArgs&) , 

 openURL(const KURL&)  )

view.openURL( url );

mw.resize(650,500);

mw.show();

application.exec();

Many applications use other scripting languages of their choice (for example, 

Perl/Python in Gimp/Gnumeric, Python in Scribus, Star Basic in OpenOffice, 

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