RB has activex support. But it is hugely limited.
I also wish support was transparent but at the time Aaron kept making
excuses.
In windows activex support is hugely understimated. RB could brake
better ground if it's support was atleast at VB classic(VB6).
Giovanni
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On Feb 26, 2009, at 12:48 PM, robin@lauryssen-mitchell.com wrote:
<rant>
Not having COM/ActiveX support is one of the major reasons RB is
relagated
to the toybox for me. I only ever develop stuff (non-commercial/
personal)
for the Windows platform. For Windows only development RB compares
badly
with Visual Studio; even the Express edition is better than RB
Personal.
Express has access to COM/ActiveX/.NET, and you can write command-line
apps which RS considers to be another platform for goodness sake!
</rant>
Whew! I needed that :)
Hopefully someone (Paul?) will righteously blast me if I have made any
factual errors in the above!!! Having said that, a major
application I
use every single day is written entirely in RB, so it can't be all
bad.
Robin
On Feb 26, 2009, at 2:37 PM, 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.
It's not a question of will; it's a question of resources. These
days, Real Software doesn't appear to have the resources to even
support the existing code base. And it's not clear to me that such
an
addition would be a big win for REALbasic. I, for example, don't do
any Windows development, so it wouldn't benefit me as far as I know.
Charles Yeoamns
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