From: Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>
Subject: Re: COM & ADA
Date: 1998/02/12
Date: 1998-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01BD386E.F79C1000.skj@acm.org> (raw)
There is the article in Ada Letters on Automation access and I'm currently
working on a COM browser which will generate code to access COM objects
directly from type libraries. There are quite a few Ada-unfriendly features
in COM IDL which I'm still working on.
On 12 February 1998 15:01, Michael F Brenner [SMTP:mfb@MBUNIX.MITRE.ORG]
wrote:
> Juergen > ... You can use the Ada95 tagged record mechanism to construct
your
> > COM objects.
> > The real bad news is of courses, that all the header files with
all
> > the predefined GUIDS, Interfaces etc, etc. only exist for
C/C++,
> > so you have to do a lot to get a nice set of Ada95 packages to
be
> > able to use COM easily (if that's possible at all, but thats a
> > different story;-))
>
> Does anyone know what has already been done in the area of these header
files?
>
> What about interfaces to Microsoft Word and to Direct X via Ada? It might
> sometimes be easier to do a specific component like those two, rather
than
> provide an interface to all the interfaces of the Component Object Model
> in Ada.
>
> Mike Brenner mikeb@mitre.org
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1998-02-12 0:00 Simon Johnston [this message]
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1998-02-11 0:00 COM & ADA ahmed
1998-02-11 0:00 ` Juergen Pfeifer
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-02-13 0:00 ` COM & Ada Nick Roberts
1998-02-15 0:00 ` COM & ADA Francois Krull
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