OK, I'm proceeding with the library that I mentioned
(http://disphelper.sourceforge.net/) and I got nice results. Pablo's
package goes directly into the core of OLE/COM automation and it would
be too hard to for me to study it and continue with it at this stage.
An example below loads Word for Windows, makes it visible, creates a new
document and writes some text:
| w |
COMEngineAlpha initializeCOM .
w := COMEngineAlpha createObjectByName: 'Word.Application'.
COMEngineAlpha callObject: w setProperty: '.Visible = %b' withInteger:
1.
COMEngineAlpha callObject: w method: '.Documents.Add'.
COMEngineAlpha callObject: w method: '.Selection.TypeText(%S)'
withString: 'This is a message to appear in Word document.'.
COMEngineAlpha safeReleaseObject: w.
COMEngineAlpha uninitializeCOM.
However, I'd like to marshall a WideString through uFFI so that I won't
loose UTF-8 support, of course the plain (String aString) signature
doesn't work ("Cannot coerce arguments"). Is there anything I can do
myself (i.e. without poking into Pharo virtual machine complexity) to
solve this challenge?
Best wishes,
Tomaz
------ Original Message ------
From: "Torsten Bergmann" <asta...@gmx.de>
To: tomaz.t...@ef.uni-lj.si; pharo-users@lists.pharo.org
Cc: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>
Sent: 12. 09. 2019 12:07:34
Subject: Aw: Re: [Pharo-users] uFFI ExternalAddress challenges
From your snippets it looks like you want to do COM Automation on
Windows.
Maybe you should have a look at: https://github.com/tesonep/pharo-com
Bye
T.
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. September 2019 um 11:08 Uhr
Von: "Tomaž Turk" <tomaz.t...@ef.uni-lj.si>
An: "Any question about pharo is welcome" <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>
Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] uFFI ExternalAddress challenges
> We are interested in it
:)
> If I recall well Pablo got one version somewhere.
Me too
:-)
Unfortunately, I only have time for 'weekend' projects, and any help
is appreciated
:-)
Regarding the uFFI calls, is it possible to pass Win32WideString in a
similar fashion as a String - or where to look to implement that?
Best wishes,
Tomaz
