Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs

[Jan D.]

> > > The COM interface itself is part of the OS.  Much like DND.
> >
> > Yes, like the DLL interface
>
> Sigh.  No, not like the DLL interface.  COM is implemented in 2 system
> libraries (depending on the Windows version): compobj.dll and
> ole32.dll.  So it's like any other system call, which Emacs clearly
> does use.


Isn't that like saying that dynamic loading of libraries is implemented 
in the system call dlopen, and that is like any other system call?  The 
only thing that is special with COM is the object layout and predefined 
interfaces, otherwise it is like dynamic loading of libraries.  I've 
done COM-objects but not ActiveX, but I don't think the difference is 
that great.

        Jan D.