On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:26:41 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:14:59 -0200
> > "Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 10/28/06, Mattias Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Is there an ActiveX component for lazarus or can someone create
> > > > one for the fpc units?
> > >
> > > What do you mean? You want to export LCL and other libraries on a
> > > ActiveX component?
> >
> > No. There are a lot of people asking for activeX 'components' and
> > fpc comes with activeX units. So, we need some 'visual' components
> > to use them more easily.
>
> First we need DispatchInterface support in the compiler.
> I am currently cooperating with someone on ActiveX, and it's a big
> mess if you use the bare COM interfaces.
>
> To be able to work with it easily, we need IDispatch support, which we
> don't have currently.
>
> Meanwhile I know how it works, so I could cooperate with Florian or
> Peter to finish the IDispatch support in the compiler.
>
> Till this is done, it makes little or no sense to create ActiveX
> components.
>
> What could be done already is create a IDL (or type library) to
> pascal converter, to create the necessary interfaces for all ActiveX
> components. Once the interfaces are created, it should be easy to add
> the ActiveX components.
Thanks. Is this mentioned in the wiki somewhere?
Mattias
_________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
"unsubscribe" as the Subject
archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
