Re: [Pharo-users] Microsoft COM

2019-09-27 Thread eftomi
Hi Pablo, Before doing Invoke() in COMDispatchInstance>>#dispatch, the array of parameters for a COM method call is currently prepared under the assumption that the parameter types reported by COM for a particular method should be used directly, i. e. if a COM method reports VT_BSTR as its paramet

Re: [Pharo-users] Microsoft COM

2019-09-26 Thread eftomi
Hi, > Do you have any use case in mind to start working on? As a professor at business school I have various use cases, like developing business web applications where you cannot do anything without DB access (e. g. Oracle, SQL Server), where COM & ADO could be used. Besides, I could present to

Re: [Pharo-users] Microsoft COM

2019-09-26 Thread Christopher Fuhrman
On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 05:18, teso...@gmail.com wrote: > Do you have any use case in mind to start working on? > I can suggest something I did in the past (it's the idea behind PlantUML Gizmo). With Roassal, we can generate visualizations (PNG?) that go into a Word document. The source (which is

Re: [Pharo-users] Microsoft COM

2019-09-26 Thread Esteban Maringolo
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 8:35 PM Vince Refiti < vince.ref...@trapezegroup.com.au> wrote: > Have you checked out Dolphin Smalltalk's way of creating COM components? > The Dolphin guys have a wizard to "automatically generate wrapper classes > for all the interfaces defined in the type-library" (from

Re: [Pharo-users] Microsoft COM

2019-09-26 Thread teso...@gmail.com
Hi Tomaz, nice to hear you like the code you found. It is a prototype and it is still needing some work. Basically, I needed a use case to continue improving it. Also, historically there was a limitation with the callbacks coming from an external thread, but that should be fixed now with the n

Re: [Pharo-users] Microsoft COM

2019-09-25 Thread Vince Refiti
>>I'm very interested in COM implementation since I found Pharo to be very >>useful as a tool, and since I work in "windowed" environment the COM >>interaction is crucial to me. I decided to spent my free evenings working on >>the project finalization. I'm not sure of how long will it take thoug

Re: [Pharo-users] Microsoft COM

2019-09-25 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
Hi, This is very nice to hear :) I’m sure Pablo will help in his capabilities, we want to improve windows interaction as much as possible :) Esteban > On 25 Sep 2019, at 22:28, eftomi wrote: > > Hi, > > I finally got some time to check Pablo's PharoCOM package closely. At first > I had prob

Re: [Pharo-users] Microsoft COM

2019-09-25 Thread eftomi
Hi, I finally got some time to check Pablo's PharoCOM package closely. At first I had problems with simple things, like making Word visible with properyNamed:put: (it's frustrating when you see the app on the processes list but you cannot control it :-)) but then I found the reason - it was a tiny

Re: [Pharo-users] Microsoft COM

2017-10-31 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 6:08 AM, teso...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Ben, > first sorry for answering late, I have seen your mail before, but the > tons of mails of Pharo got over it. > > I will tell you the state of what I have and what maybe you will need. > But, before my plan is to improve this,

Re: [Pharo-users] Microsoft COM

2017-10-31 Thread teso...@gmail.com
Hi Ben, first sorry for answering late, I have seen your mail before, but the tons of mails of Pharo got over it. I will tell you the state of what I have and what maybe you will need. But, before my plan is to improve this, but as with everything it is easier to push it if I have some users.

[Pharo-users] Microsoft COM

2017-10-30 Thread Ben Coman
Hi Pablo, At work I managed to remote control Internet Explorer with Excel VBA like this... [1] http://www.automateexcel.com/vba/automate-internet-explorer and went looking for how similar might be achieved from Pharo. IIUC I discovered this would be done via Microsoft's Component Object Model,