Re: Windows - Embed Server et al.

2012-04-20 Thread Mat M
Le Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:14:44 +0200, Mat M a écrit: Le Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:03:04 +0200, Noel Grandin a écrit: ActiveX/OLE is not compiled into LO on platforms other than Windows. And what about EmbedServ ? It is needed for OLE Object embedding featured under *nix & BSD etc, no ? El

Re: Windows - Embed Server et al.

2012-04-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi Enrico, > > And this works on other platforms, ets say, GNU/Linux, *BSD, etc, > > etc ? > > I find it is often well worth engaging the brain before typing at > the > keyboard and creating noise for others to have to read. This was a serious question! I wouldn't be so much surpri

Re: Windows - Embed Server et al.

2012-04-19 Thread Mat M
Le Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:03:04 +0200, Noel Grandin a écrit: OOh, I really hope you're planning on working on: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38808 That would make setting up windows build machines much easier. Nope. I am not a so-skilled developer, alas. shmget already found a s

Re: Windows - Embed Server et al.

2012-04-19 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Enrico, On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 17:47 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > And this works on other platforms, ets say, GNU/Linux, *BSD, etc, etc ? I find it is often well worth engaging the brain before typing at the keyboard and creating noise for others to have to read. All the best

Re: Windows - Embed Server et al.

2012-04-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
> On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 16:34 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > It is also used in Groupwise for editing mail. > > > > Groupwise calls LO as editor ? > > Or Microsoft Word - And this works on other platforms, ets say, GNU/Linux, *BSD, etc, etc ? hmm, does Groupwise client meanwhile fully w

Re: Windows - Embed Server et al.

2012-04-19 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 16:34 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > It is also used in Groupwise for editing mail. > > Groupwise calls LO as editor ? Or Microsoft Word - Outlook also uses MS Word as it's editor, where are you going with that ? ATB, Michael. -- mi

Re: Windows - Embed Server et al.

2012-04-19 Thread Enrico Weigelt
> It is also used in Groupwise for editing mail. Groupwise calls LO as editor ? cu -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Enrico Weigelt VNC - Virtual Network Consult GmbH Development Äußere Bayreuther Str. 55, D - 90409 Nürnberg Tel: +49 911 72303-30 Fax: +49 911 72303-50 e

Re: Windows - Embed Server et al.

2012-04-19 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 11:26 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > It looks like the ActiveX control was intended to allow embedding of LO > > inside InternetExplorer. > > And *my* opinion is that such embedding opens up a horrible Pandora's > box of potential problems that we don't really have enough pe

Re: Windows - Embed Server et al.

2012-04-19 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> It looks like the ActiveX control was intended to allow embedding of LO > inside InternetExplorer. And *my* opinion is that such embedding opens up a horrible Pandora's box of potential problems that we don't really have enough people to solve, and thus we really should try to kill this monster

Re: Windows - Embed Server et al.

2012-04-19 Thread Noel Grandin
OOh, I really hope you're planning on working on: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38808 That would make setting up windows build machines much easier. I'm not an expert, but this is what I could find: It looks like the ActiveX control was intended to allow embedding of LO inside In

Windows - Embed Server et al.

2012-04-18 Thread Mat M
Hello, I am trying to decrypt some of the Windows bits of LO, namely OLE & ActiveX parts. If I read correctly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding, it says that OLE is an interface, mainly used in Windows, but which could be implemented everywhere. When doing Insert