Re: COM support

[Massimo Valle <maxduepuntozero@yahoo.it>]

On 26/feb/09, at 20:37, Adam Shirey wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Norman Palardy
> <npalardy@great-white-software.com> wrote:
> > > I think adding COM support would be a pretty quick and definitely  
> > > big win
> > > for REALbasic.
> >
> > I can assure you it's not a "pretty quick" thing to add full COM/ 
> > ActiveX
> > support
> "Pretty quick" is a relative term, and I certainly don't equate it to
> "trivial". However, I've discussed it with Aaron (who has several
> postings on his website regarding COM and did much of the research
> while he was at Real), and he asserts it's a reasonably quick fix --
> though it takes the will to implement it.
While I can't say if adding COM support would be a quick fix or not,  
I'd just add to this discussion that even Mac OS X uses COM objects,  
even if here it's not widely used as on Windows.
I recently posted a Mac OS X class (http://www.maxvalle.com/AppleRemoteClass.zip 
) which handles the Apple Remote in pure RB and, to do so, it handles  
COM objects with delegates.
I can say that's a real pain working with COM objects as I did and  
it's not feasible for extensive projects. But it's still possible.
Massimo Valle



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