I had heard about COM in Win8. Is it still being promoted as a development target? It's been tolerated in .Net for ages but always prefaced with phrases like "legacy technology." COM's main drawback is that it has not caught on outside of Microsoft. For those of us interested in portable programming that's a big negative.
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Steven Taylor <tayl...@gmail.com> wrote: > amusingly, COM lives on: > > "Under the covers, Windows 8 uses a combination of the decades-old > Component Object Model (COM), the ECMA-335 standard for a Common Language > Interface (CLI) to define metadata around API calls" > > http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1853667&seqNum=3 > > > > On 27 November 2012 23:29, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have never a user case of using J COM server. but I test registrer > > j701 j.dll (which I have renamed to j.dll-off) under wine and it > > seemed ok. > > > > bill@debian:bin32(master)$ wine regsvr32.exe j.dll-off > > Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. > > Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set > correctly. > > err:systray:initialize_systray Could not create tray window > > Successfully registered DLL j.dll-off > > > > Your blog said j701 does not support J COM server. Where did you get > this > > information? or did you test it yourself? > > > > Втр, 27 Ноя 2012, John Baker писал(а): > > > I have changed my blog post and added a footnote noting Bill's > > observation > > > that 7.01 can function as a COM client. If anyone has run 7.01 as a > COM > > > server please let us know. > > > > > > jdb > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:22 AM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > I have never used J as a COM server, but apparently the j.dll of > > > > j701 can be stll be registered as a DLL COM server, at leaset that > > > > is the code in open source j engine. Or I might be wrong... > > > > > > > > Вск, 25 Ноя 2012, John Baker писал(а): > > > > > I just took a quick look at this script. It looks like j functions > > as a > > > > COM client. This is very useful but unless I've missed something this > > is > > > > quite different than functioning as a server. > > > > > > > > > > So j 7 can communicate with COM servers but without building a > > blackend > > > > like JHS it cannot be registered as a server. Is that correct? > > > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > > > > > > On Nov 25, 2012, at 8:25 AM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > You blog said COM is un-available in j701 which is not true. The > > > > > > addon wdooo can provide support for COM, futhermore because it is > > > > > > open source and directly call at api level, it can support more > > > > > > functions than that in j602. FYI. > > > > > > > > > > > > Вск, 25 Ноя 2012, John Baker писал(а): > > > > > >> I've posted a new blog entry > > > > > >> > > > > > >> http://bakerjd99.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/jhs-meets-mathjax/ > > > > > >> > > > > > >> showing how easy it is to use industrial strength JavaScript > > > > libraries like > > > > > >> MathJax in JHS. > > > > > >> > > > > > >> I am very interested in developing fully functional JHS > > applications > > > > using > > > > > >> leading JavaScript grids and plotting libraries. If others have > > > > > >> been hoeing this row let us know. > > > > > >> > > > > > >> -- > > > > > >> John D. Baker > > > > > >> bakerj...@gmail.com > > > > > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >> For information about J forums see > > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > regards, > > > > > > ==================================================== > > > > > > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > > > > > > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > For information about J forums see > > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > For information about J forums see > > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > > > -- > > > > regards, > > > > ==================================================== > > > > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > > > > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > John D. Baker > > > bakerj...@gmail.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > -- > > regards, > > ==================================================== > > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- John D. Baker bakerj...@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
