I really didn't have a major reason for trying to implement this, I just figured it is something JRuby should have since MRI has it. I'm also forced to use windows on a regular basis so I have access to a machine to do the developing on.
In this JIRA ticket (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-191) it talks about using the Jacob library to implement this. I don't know enough about FFI to say whether that would work or not. If using FFI would be better I would be more than happy to try and learn how to use it. It seems like the lack of WIN32OLE support has not really held anyone back so I figure it would be a good place to learn since it obviously isn't a high priority. Joe On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Vladimir Sizikov <vsizi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > I might be *totally* off the base, so don't pay too much attention to > what I'm going to say ;) > > Now that JRuby has great FFI support, my understanding is that one > might implement WIN32OLE purely in ruby. > Like, for example, we implement Win32API.rb (lib\ruby\1.8\Win32API.rb). > > Is there particular reason you're going to implement WIN32OLE in Java? > > Thanks, > --Vladimir > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Joseph Athman <jjath...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've always wanted to contribute something to JRuby so I was looking > through > > JIRA and noticed that JRuby still does not have the WIN32OLE api, I > thought > > maybe that is something I could try and implement. I quickly discovered > > that I'm not totally sure how to go about this though. I was trying to > look > > at some of the other ruby standard lib classes that have been created, > but > > I'm hoping I could get a little help here. My two main questions are > about > > the @JRubyMethod annotation and the actual method parameters. It seems > like > > some methods take a ThreadContext object while some don't. Take for > example > > this method from the WIN32OLE class: > > > > WIN32OLE.connect('Excel.Application') # => WIN32OLE object which > represents > > running Excel. > > > > What would the method signature for that look like? I'm guessing this > would > > be a static Java method, but I'm not sure. Would there just be one > > parameter in the Java code? Would it be an IRubyObject or would be be a > > RubyString? I looked on the JRuby wiki but I didn't really see anything > > about this. If there is more information out there you can just point me > in > > that direction. Thanks for any help. > > > > Joe > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > >
