Hi,

I'm just starting to try and convert the ms header files for several COM objects for use with D and it's a rather daunting task.

I've read the "C .h to D modules" guidlines which are great as far as they go, but if anyone has an example of doing this for one of the smaller (are any of them?) standard COm objects that they could share, it would make life simpler.

I'm currently working on ExDisp.h and I will post my results somewhere if this would be of interest to others...once I've got it working.

Thanks, njs.

Hi nigel,

JCC has a tutorial using COM http://www.dsource.org/tutorials/index.php?show_example=31.

And Y.Tomino has translated some COM headers found here http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA028375/d/windows.h.html

I haven't read or used either of these but in light of the recent interface Ill read over them now.

Still it might be good to learn doing it yourself, not trying to put you off :).

C

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 05:42:44 GMT, Nigel Sandever <nigelsandever@btconnect.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm just starting to try and convert the ms header files for several COM objects
> for use with D and it's a rather daunting task.
>
> I've read the "C .h to D modules" guidlines which are great as far as they go,
> but if anyone has an example of doing this for one of the smaller (are any of
> them?) standard COm objects that they could share, it would make life simpler.
>
> I'm currently working on ExDisp.h and I will post my results somewhere if this
> would be of interest to others...once I've got it working.
>
> Thanks, njs.
>
>



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On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:51:33 -0700, C <dont@respond.com> wrote:

> Hi nigel,
> 
> JCC has a tutorial using COM =
> 
> http://www.dsource.org/tutorials/index.php?show_example=3D31.
> 

Yep. I seen this one. That's pretty much the motivation for starting this.

> And Y.Tomino has translated some COM headers found here =
> 
> http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA028375/d/windows.h.html
> 

Perfect. Thanks for the link and special thanks to Y.Tomino and one_mad_alien if they're reading.

> I haven't read or used either of these but in light of the recent =
> 
> interface Ill read over them now.
> 
> Still it might be good to learn doing it yourself, not trying to put you=
>  =
> 
> off :).
> 

I'm not easily put off. However, having tried to use dmc to preprocess ExDisp.h, it bottled out with errors having produced 2.5 MB of output, none of which appeared to contain the crux of ExDisp.h, I then switched to using CL /EP which completed but resulted in a file of 1.9 MB/60000+ lines (after trimming comments and blank lines). I was looking for a before'n'after example to get me started on what to throw away.

Finding that ExDisp.h has already be converted, albeit with the event callback stuff missing, is a considerable bonus.

The one downside of the name D, is that it makes searching for related materials kinda hard.

Thanks again.


> C
> 
> On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 05:42:44 GMT, Nigel Sandever =
> 
> <nigelsandever@btconnect.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm just starting to try and convert the ms header files for several C=
> OM =
> 
> > objects
> > for use with D and it's a rather daunting task.
> >
> > I've read the "C .h to D modules" guidlines which are great as far as =
> 
> > they go,
> > but if anyone has an example of doing this for one of the smaller (are=
>  =
> 
> > any of
> > them?) standard COm objects that they could share, it would make life =
> 
> > simpler.
> >
> > I'm currently working on ExDisp.h and I will post my results somewhere=
>  =
> 
> > if this
> > would be of interest to others...once I've got it working.
> >
> > Thanks, njs.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- =
> 
> D Newsgroup.

Nigel Sandever wrote:

>The one downside of the name D, is that it makes searching for related materials kinda hard.
>  
>
Just put the keywords "Digital Mars" in your search.

>Thanks again.
>  
>

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On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 00:12:14 +0800, J Anderson <REMOVEanderson@badmama.com.au> wrote:
> Nigel Sandever wrote:
> 
> >The one downside of the name D, is that it makes searching for related
materials
> >kinda hard.
> > 
> >
> Just put the keywords "Digital Mars" in your search.
> 

I do, and it works for many good pages, but I have also come across or been pointed at several pages with good information and bits of code were the authors have omitted any mention of Digital Mars.

A saving grace is that almost all have a link to "digitalmars.com" which makes a reasonably selective search term.

> >Thanks again.
> > 
> >
> 
> -- 
> -Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

Nigel Sandever wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:51:33 -0700, C <dont@respond.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi nigel,
>>JCC has a tutorial using COM =
>>http://www.dsource.org/tutorials/index.php?show_example=3D31.
> 
> 
> Yep. I seen this one. That's pretty much the motivation for starting this.

Because it was too simple or too hard? (Or did it just whet your appetite?)

> 
> 
>>And Y.Tomino has translated some COM headers found here =
>>http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA028375/d/windows.h.html
> 
> 
> Perfect. Thanks for the link and special thanks to Y.Tomino and one_mad_alien if they're reading.

I haven't studied Y.Tomino's COM stuff, but I tried out his other Win32 headers and they're great.

I've worked some with one_mad_alien's COM stuff and it's great, too. I managed to adapt one_mad_alien's COM to work with Y.Tomino Win32 headers, but something stopped working with DMD 0.82 (or earlier). Oops. I can probably fix it, but it looks tricky.


>>I haven't read or used either of these but in light of the recent =
>>interface Ill read over them now.
>>Still it might be good to learn doing it yourself, not trying to put you=
>>off :).
>>
> 
> 
> I'm not easily put off. However, having tried to use dmc to preprocess ExDisp.h, it bottled out with errors having produced 2.5 MB of output, none of which appeared to contain the crux of ExDisp.h, I then switched to using CL /EP which completed but resulted in a file of 1.9 MB/60000+ lines (after trimming comments and blank lines). I was looking for a before'n'after example to get me started on what to throw away.
> 
> Finding that ExDisp.h has already be converted, albeit with the event callback stuff missing, is a considerable bonus.
> 
> The one downside of the name D, is that it makes searching for related materials kinda hard.

You could try searching for "D Programming Language".

Also, you could try the links on these pages:

http://jcc_7.tripod.com/d/links.html
http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?MoreLinks
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/D/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/D/
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/dlinks.html


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