Re: [Jruby-devel] win32ole and JACOB

2006-06-09 Thread Charles O Nutter
The unicode question comes up again and again. We are likely going to just find a way to support unicode in JRuby even though the Ruby API doesn't have accommodations for it. At that point, you should be able to use JRuby's win32ole with unicode strings. On 6/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Jruby-devel] win32ole and JACOB

2006-06-09 Thread wknaka
That would be great. I've used jruby with both jcom and jacozoom, and it worked flawlessly with both. It would be nice to have something as part of the distribution. One thing about win32ole is that when I used it, there was no way to pass unicode strings back and forth. I ended up modifying w

[Jruby-devel] win32ole and JACOB

2006-06-09 Thread Charles O Nutter
I want to make win32ole work in JRuby. JaCOB is a Java-COM bridge that Groovy uses to accomplish OLE scripting. It oughta be a day's work to wire it in, and then things like WATIR would work in JRuby too. I wouldn't expect this would be delivered with JRuby proper, but it could easily be installed

Re: [Jruby-devel] JRuby Ast

2006-06-09 Thread Lukas Felber
Thomas E Enebo wrote: > In the above code snippet to find Dir class AST we would need two > references. So I think this task is problematic. If you consider > that builtin classes do not have an AST at all (they are implemented > entirely in Java) then there may not even be an AST for a class.