Igor Stasenko wrote > AFAIK, COM is fairly simple. You need to do a lill parsing deciphering > IDL interface, > and frankly i don't remember all the details. But at the end, it is > just a bunch of C calls. > With NativeBoost you can do calls to C .. so it is doable. > > Again, Dolphin Smalltalk can use COM , so if it can be done there, i > don't see why it is impossible > to do the same in Pharo.
well, Dolphin COM interface was written by two very bright chaps with intimate knowledge of their VM and system, good knowledge of windows and COM, over a rather long period. So I would say: - Doable: absolutely yes, - Feasible for someone who does not have solid experience in FFI and just needs to connect to this library so that he can do his real job: probably no. ----- http://www.cloud208.com/ -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/NB-Capabilities-tp4654570p4654615.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
