I'm are also facing the same problem. I have an ActiveX DLL and I'm struggling to make it work from Mozilla.
If you come across a solution please do let me know. As far as "David Bradley's excellent COM connect layer", I too had no luck of finding it... Hoagiebot wrote: > > I was reading Adam Lock's documentation for his ActiveX Host Plugin for > Mozilla based browsers (which can be found on his website here: > http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm) and saw that in a few places > he > mentioned something about a "COM Connect Layer" that was written by a > developer named David Bradley. Here is a quote from the above mentioned > documentation: > > *************** > COM Connect: > Available as a build switch in the source from Mozilla 1.3 up that takes > advantage of David Bradley's excellent COM connect layer. This layer acts > as > a transparent bridge between the worlds of XPConnect and ActiveX > marshaling > calls, data types and so on. It means that COM objects (including ActiveX > controls) can be scripted via their IDispatch interface in a similar > fashion > to IE. Builds must be explicitly enabled to support this mode and there is > no backwards compatibility with other versions of Mozilla 1.x or Netscape > 4.x, 6.x or 7.x. > The COM Connect build mode will be the preferred configuration going > forward, with XPConnect & LiveConnect support likely to be dropped. > *************** > > I have been trying to get some Microsoft COM-based components to work with > Firefox recently, and as a result I find this mentioning of a COM Connect > layer in Mozilla to be very very interesting. As a result, I was > wondering > if anyone knows where I can find David Bradley's COM connect layer code in > the Mozilla Firefox source code tree and if there is any documentation > available that explains how it works or how to use it either on the > Mozilla.org website or elsewhere. I would greatly appreciate any > information that you can provide for me, and I will be looking forward to > hearing back from you. > > Sincerely, > Hoagiebot > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-embedding mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-embedding > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/David-Bradley%27s-COM-connect-layer-tf4777985.html#a13835829 Sent from the Mozilla - Embedding mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ dev-embedding mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-embedding
