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From: Alex Gamper <gamper@mail.datanet.hu>
Subject: ada and activex/ole
Date: 1997/04/02
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Date: 1997-04-02T00:00:00+00:00
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Has anybody done any work on binding the microsoft COM specification
(specificaly activex) to ADA? I am interested in developing a
OLE/ActiveX container (wishfull thinking) which will be used to
host/contain existing ActiveX controls (possably even use COMS's
aggregation/containment principles to extend these existing controls).

Idealy what I am looking for is source code for an ActiveX container and
an ActiveX control. From which I can then expand apon.

I know IONA?? have an CORBA ORB/OLE interface (ORBIX/windows ?? ) that
will convert a COM type library into presumably the ada specification of
the original COM interface. But from my understanding this will only
solve half the problem (ie the control side of the equation, since a
container does not normaly expose its interfaces through a type
library??).

I have a copy of the win32 bindings (both from the public domain, and my
compiler vendor) but this is a bit on the thin side (no pun intended). I
was hoping that somehow generics and tagged types had been used to
specify these COM interfaces.

Regads Alex Gamper