Any projects using AddRef() and Release()?

On 25.06.2013 20:29, Walter Bright wrote:
> Any projects using AddRef() and Release()?

Visual D uses COM quite a lot, but not the version from druntime because of http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4092

On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 18:29:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Any projects using AddRef() and Release()?

Just plans. I think on Windows would be the best way to integrate in a legacy code base, exposing COM objects from D. I hope the Juno COM server functionality still works (and will), even if the class allocators are deprecated in D2: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/Juno-Windows-Class-Library/blob/master/juno/com/core.d?#L3174 .
On the client side, I try to integrate with Direct2D/DirectWrite which are COM based. I use a wrapper struct though (ComPtr!IFace), that invokes automatically AddRef/Release.

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:29:00 -0700, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Any projects using AddRef() and Release()?

If you want to work against the new Windows Runtime, you'll need COM, and additional interface IInspectable.

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On 2013-06-25 20:29, Walter Bright wrote:
> Any projects using AddRef() and Release()?

Yes, DWT uses it for integrating with OLE.

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On 6/25/2013 1:43 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-06-25 20:29, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Any projects using AddRef() and Release()?
>
> Yes, DWT uses it for integrating with OLE.

I emailed you some information about this today - if you didn't get it, please email me your correct email address. doob@me.com looks fake :-)

"Walter Bright" <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:kqcnhc$1guv$1@digitalmars.com...
> Any projects using AddRef() and Release()?

Yes, for DirectX.  I'm planning to ditch them once extern(C++) support is good enough though.

On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 18:29:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Any projects using AddRef() and Release()?

I use it for the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) backend for speech4d:

https://github.com/JakobOvrum/speech4d

The project hasn't had much time dedicated to it and is going to go through major changes, but COM for the SAPI is inevitable.

On 26 June 2013 10:45, Daniel Murphy <yebblies@nospamgmail.com> wrote:

> "Walter Bright" <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:kqcnhc$1guv$1@digitalmars.com...
> > Any projects using AddRef() and Release()?
>
> Yes, for DirectX.  I'm planning to ditch them once extern(C++) support is
> good enough though.
>

You don't think you'd use ARC with COM when it's available? Surely a language defined ARC that Walter is discussing would be a neat fit for COM, just as with ObjC?

"Manu" <turkeyman@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1459.1372208386.13711.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com...
> On 26 June 2013 10:45, Daniel Murphy <yebblies@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:kqcnhc$1guv$1@digitalmars.com...
>> > Any projects using AddRef() and Release()?
>>
>> Yes, for DirectX.  I'm planning to ditch them once extern(C++) support is
>> good enough though.
>>
>
> You don't think you'd use ARC with COM when it's available? Surely a
> language defined ARC that Walter is discussing would be a neat fit for
> COM,
> just as with ObjC?
>

Sure, when/if