On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 12:24:43 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 10:50:27 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
It only looks at the name.
I'll test if that name needs to be "IUnknown" or the exact
"core.sys.windows.unknwn.IUnknown", since I'm in @nogc and not
necessarily
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 12:20:43 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 02:30:59 UTC, evilrat wrote:
My guess it will work fine when derive from any
extern(Windows) interface(that's right, not class) that has
base 3 methods(AddRef, Release, QueryInterface)
I'll test
Answering my own questions:
On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 14:22:56 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
Question 1. Is it mandatory to inherit from
core.sys.windows.unknwn.IUnknown, or just having an interface
named "IUnknown" validate it for being a COM interface?
Deriving from an interface
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 10:50:27 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
It only looks at the name.
I'll test if that name needs to be "IUnknown" or the exact
"core.sys.windows.unknwn.IUnknown", since I'm in @nogc and not
necessarily on Windows, so I can't inherit from
core.sys.windows.unknwn.IUnknown
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 02:30:59 UTC, evilrat wrote:
You can't(or maybe you can but that is not a true COM). COM is
Windows tech. It is backed up by OLE or whatever server it is.
What happens is that I translate a SDK which provides "COM-like"
objects, on Windows and Mac (claiming ABI
On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 14:22:56 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
Question 1. Is it mandatory to inherit from
core.sys.windows.unknwn.IUnknown, or just having an interface
named "IUnknown" validate it for being a COM interface?
If yes, then how am I supposed to use COM interfaces in
You'd better read some more authorative source since my
experience is very limited on that matter, but here is some quick
notes
On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 14:22:56 UTC, Guillaume Piolat
wrote:
Question 1. Is it mandatory to inherit from
core.sys.windows.unknwn.IUnknown, or just having
AFAIK you can only use COM from windows anyway. OK I have been using them
from linux but only with WINE help.
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-learn <
digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has used COM in dlang extensively.
>
> Context:
I wonder if anyone has used COM in dlang extensively.
Context: I must use COM FFI interfacing on systems that aren't
necessarily Windows. It is essential that the layout of
interfaces and classes are the same than in equivalent C++
objects.
Question 1. Is it mandatory to inherit from
