OOh, I really hope you're planning on working on:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38808
That would make setting up windows build machines much easier.
I'm not an expert, but this is what I could find:
It looks like the ActiveX control was intended to allow embedding of LO
inside InternetExplorer.
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/1.1/
http://help.libreoffice.org/3.3/Common/ActiveX_Control_to_Display_Documents_in_Internet_Explorer
OLE looks like it was primarily implemented to allow LO to be controlled
from external programs:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Bridge/Automation_Bridge
ActiveX/OLE is not compiled into LO on platforms other than Windows.
On 2012-04-19 00:54, Mat M wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to decrypt some of the Windows bits of LO, namely OLE &
ActiveX parts.
If I read correctly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding, it says
that OLE is an interface, mainly used in Windows, but which could be
implemented everywhere.
When doing Insert/Object/OLE Object in LibO, we can see all our
components here.
IIUC, LibO uses it to incorporate data coming from LibO components in
another LibO component (same type or not). And it works under Windows
& under Linux, which is smart.
So now, I have a full load of questions :)
1. Why the OLE components are not visible from other OLE-capable
Windows apps like Wordpad ? Is it only an internal implementation
which is only compatible to itself ?
2. When browsing the sources I found :
- extensions/source/ole : what does it do ?
- extensions/source/activex : it should provide an activex of LibO.
The README.txt states we should have a so_activex.dll we need to
register but I don't find any dll in 3.5.2 which seems related to
that. Is it still delivered ?
3. I tried to detect components in my system:
- In DCOM config, I only see a LibreOffice Service Manager 1.0, which
is related to soffice.exe.
- From VC++2008Express, no .Net or COM component is detected. Is it
normal ?
4. extensions/source/ole, extensions/source/activex & embedserv all
require atl & mfc from Microsoft. How do you handle that under
non-Windows OSes ?
Thanks in advance to the people who will answer :)
Best regards
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