I've managed to create a D app that can embed an instance of MSIE :) looks like I got VARIANT right!

one odd thing
I could not use
extern(C) IID IID_IWebBrowser2;   // error no interface from the locally
defined class
extern(C) CLSID CLSID_WebBrowser; // error class not registered

instead I defined them locally

CLSID LCL_CLSID_WebBrowser = {
0x8856F961,0x340A, 0x11D0, [
0xA9, 0x6B, (byte)0x00, (byte)0xC0, (byte)0x4F, (byte)0xD7, (byte)0x05,
(byte)0xA2]
};

IID LCL_IID_IWebBrowser2 = {
0xD30C1661, 0xCDAF, 0x11d0,
[0x8A, 0x3E, 0x00, 0xC0, 0x4F, 0xC9, 0xE2, 0x6E]
} ;

any ideas anyone ?

if anyone wants the source, email me I've got to tidy it up a little .... its currently over 200K of source to create a 103K exe

mike.

"Mike Wynn" <mike.wynn@l8night.co.uk> wrote in message news:bgf627$1ok5$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I've managed to create a D app that can embed an instance of MSIE :) looks like I got VARIANT right!

Cool! It'd be great if we could post it on the D web site as an example of a non-trivial COM app!

> one odd thing
> I could not use
> extern(C) IID IID_IWebBrowser2;   // error no interface from the locally
> defined class
> extern(C) CLSID CLSID_WebBrowser; // error class not registered
>
> instead I defined them locally
>
> CLSID LCL_CLSID_WebBrowser = {
> 0x8856F961,0x340A, 0x11D0, [
> 0xA9, 0x6B, (byte)0x00, (byte)0xC0, (byte)0x4F, (byte)0xD7, (byte)0x05,
> (byte)0xA2]
> };
>
> IID LCL_IID_IWebBrowser2 = {
> 0xD30C1661, 0xCDAF, 0x11d0,
> [0x8A, 0x3E, 0x00, 0xC0, 0x4F, 0xC9, 0xE2, 0x6E]
> } ;
>
> any ideas anyone ?

That's because the Microsoft keeps adding new IID's in their library, and my version doesn't have them.

> if anyone wants the source, email me I've got to tidy it up a little .... its currently over 200K of source to create a 103K exe

I think your code could be a great help for others.

I'm in the process of rebuilding my PC [again] and have no FTP access to my
main site.
so I've put a couple of files online on geocities.
http://www.geocities.com/one_mad_alien/dcom_not_dcom.html

one is my whole cygwin build env (makefiles etc) + browser project, the other is just my current progress through the VC++6.0 header files ..

happy hacking!

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:bggr6q$d8a$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>
> "Mike Wynn" <mike.wynn@l8night.co.uk> wrote in message news:bgf627$1ok5$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> > I've managed to create a D app that can embed an instance of MSIE :) looks like I got VARIANT right!
>
> Cool! It'd be great if we could post it on the D web site as an example of
a
> non-trivial COM app!
>
> > one odd thing
> > I could not use
> > extern(C) IID IID_IWebBrowser2;   // error no interface from the locally
> > defined class
> > extern(C) CLSID CLSID_WebBrowser; // error class not registered
> >
> > instead I defined them locally
> >
> > CLSID LCL_CLSID_WebBrowser = {
> > 0x8856F961,0x340A, 0x11D0, [
> > 0xA9, 0x6B, (byte)0x00, (byte)0xC0, (byte)0x4F, (byte)0xD7, (byte)0x05,
> > (byte)0xA2]
> > };
> >
> > IID LCL_IID_IWebBrowser2 = {
> > 0xD30C1661, 0xCDAF, 0x11d0,
> > [0x8A, 0x3E, 0x00, 0xC0, 0x4F, 0xC9, 0xE2, 0x6E]
> > } ;
> >
> > any ideas anyone ?
>
> That's because the Microsoft keeps adding new IID's in their library, and
my
> version doesn't have them.
>
> > if anyone wants the source, email me I've got to tidy it up a little
....
> > its currently over 200K of source to create a 103K exe
>
> I think your code could be a great help for others.
>
>