Hi Sara, On Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2016 10:02:17 CET Sara Golemon wrote: > Section 2.3.3 of the SDKRef.pdf[1] guide states: "Since COM and XPCOM are > conceptually very similar but vary in the implementation details, we have > created a “glue” layer that shields COM client code from these differences." > but makes no further mention of where to find this glue API. The SDK > bundle[2] does contain several directories named "glue", however none which > relate to a C++ API. > > 2.3.3 subsection 1 goes on to state: "To hide these differences, the > VirtualBox glue code provides the COMGETTER(attrib) and > COMSETTER(attrib) macros." > so I tried greping the SDK[2] for the string "COMGETTER", however this does > not appear anywhere. > > I've been able to use the CAPI glue successfully, but as I'd prefer to use > C++, I'm hoping someone can point me to the right SDK.
have a look at the VirtualBox base package tarball which you can download from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads The directory src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxManage contains the command line tool which is IMO an excellent example for a simple VirtualBox API client using the C++ bindings. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Jan Schultheiss, Val Maher _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
