On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Joseph Athman <jjath...@gmail.com> wrote: > As far as the FFI version goes, I must say that I don't really know where to > start. I'm trying to understand what's happening in the Win32API.rb and > samples/ffi rb files, but I must say they are pretty cryptic to me. If I've > never done C programming before will I be pretty lost? I certainly don't > want to ask for so much help that one of you might as well be doing it for > me, but if someone could explain more of what's happening in one of these > files that might get me a long ways.
I think the author of that win32/ole library you point out below (Daniel Berger) does have an FFI version of it somewhere too, but I don't know where. FFI definitely requires some knowledge of C, since you'll have to understand how the functions get bound and how arguments are passed and the size and shape of structures. If you really don't know C at all, you'd probably be better off helping on the Jacob version. > Also, I was going some googling and I found that someone has been working on > a pure ruby version of this library http://github.com/djberg96/pr-win32ole. > I tried installing and using it but I had a problem. It looks like a > pretty monstrous piece of ruby, but would this be better than FFI or Jacob > if it worked? It appears that pr-win32ole depends on his win32-api library which uses a native extension to Ruby, so that's unfortunately out. If he has an FFI backend somewhere, that might be workable. - Charlie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
