On Sunday, 21 July 2019 at 07:04:00 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
COM is used heavily in WinAPI since about Vista. Pretty much
all new functionality has been exposed by it and NOT
extern(Windows) functions which was the standard during up to
about XP (for example notification icons would today be COM
based but isn't).
E.g. jump lists
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_core/nn-shobjidl_core-icustomdestinationlist
Shell object library? It shipped with Internet Explorer 4 and was
installable on windows 95. Shell (explorer) is not really winapi,
it's more or less a normal userland application that provides
integration, like an RPC server, in this way it can be similar to
d-bus, but it's difficult to say, because the library abstracts
whether it works in process or out of process, most (older) shell
objects work in process and simply provide shell logic like
moving files to trash bin and creating shortcuts.
