HI Bill, Thanks for the heads-up on wdooo ... I missed that. Will look into it ... might be a viable alternative.
r/Alex On Oct 14, 2010, at 8:48 AM, bill lam wrote: > It is unfortunate that the j.dll in J7 still provides JDLLServer, otherwise > it provides an excuse to implement an open source version of J COM server > similar to the wdooo addons that replacing the wd's oleautomation. > > Чтв, 14 Окт 2010, Alexander Rufon писал(а): >> If you mean the J COM documentation, that can be found here: >> http://jsoftware.com/help/user/oleocx.htm >> >> If you need source code examples, I started out by looking into this >> directory >> /Applications/j602/system/examples/ole >> >> You should pay particular attention to the contents of the file: >> /Applications/j602/system/examples/ole/cpp/p_jcl/jsvr.cpp >> /Applications/j602/system/examples/ole/vb/jole.bas >> >> But if your looking for general COM documentation, I would suggest looking >> at second hand bookstores (was able to buy 2 books on COM a few years back). >> MS seems to want to kill this tech with .NET and .NET Remoting since its >> really prone to DLL HELL (try installing J 64 and 32 versions in the same >> machine ... much hair pulling ensues :P). >> >> Actually ... we may be in for some rough time after J7 since I believe >> COM/OLE is tied with J's WD features. I believe J7 would not support the old >> interfaces directly with the advent of the new JFE's (GTK & JHS). The rumor >> is that J.EXE would stay at version 6 and only J.DLL would be >> replaced/upgraded. I'm a bit concerned because the UTF8 support for SetB() >> and GetB() functions are still broken ... and my clients are mostly in China >> and South-East Asia. I do have work-arounds like creating an external >> dictionary for non-latin characters and replacing them with GUID then >> reverting it back after J is finished with the data. Its clunky and time >> consuming. So I'm waiting for the release and hoping that the code re-work >> is not as bad as I fear. >> >> Still, some kind-hearted soul may come up with a library to convert J memory >> structure to .NET variant/object format. Actually, somebody did start on >> this, just look at this tutorial (what you should look for is the conversion >> of J 3!:1 format to C data): >> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Interfaces/JTask >> >> Ok, didn't notice I've been ranting ... my excuse is its early in the >> morning and haven't had breakfast yet and still haven't decided if I would >> want to go through my kihon and kata routines. :P >> >> On Oct 13, 2010, at 11:45 PM, Martin Pelletier wrote: >> >> [---=| TOFU protection by t-prot: 9 lines snipped |=---] > > -- > 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
