Re: [Chicken-users] Win32 COM with Chicken?

[felix winkelmann]

On 5/3/05, Graham Fawcett <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I thought of grabbing some OLE Automation examples in C, and
> trying to rewrite them. I wanted to learn Chicken's FFI anyway. ;-) I
> suspect that whatever I can come up with would be terribly limited,
> but might be enough to do some useful work. If you get there first,
> please let me know!
> 
> BTW, my first target for translation was going to be this MSDN howto:
> 
> HOWTO: Use OLE Automation from a C Application Rather Than C++
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;181473
> 
> It's a short example of launching an OLE app, querying it, setting a property.
> 

There is now reason not to use C++, though.

But, yes, I'm aware that this is hard. It really depends on how
much of the COM/OLE stuff you want to support....


cheers,
felix