From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:31:34 +0200 Message-ID: <01c533dd$Blat.v2.4$a94e5800@zahav.net.il> References: <7dbe73ed05032703218114182@mail.gmail.com> <01c53303$Blat.v2.4$a73df0a0@zahav.net.il> <9b41d48c93314b0c6799e1e979d06615@swipnet.se> <01c5334d$Blat.v2.4$8fddbfe0@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112047476 4953 80.91.229.2 (28 Mar 2005 22:04:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mathias.dahl@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 00:04:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DG2Kz-0006nc-Ls for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:03:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DG2b9-0000Bi-Vk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:20:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DG2Yv-0007vY-6t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:18:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DG2Ys-0007uk-PF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:18:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DG2Rd-0005Vh-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:10:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DG1t0-000756-NC; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-83-130-243-227.inter.net.il [83.130.243.227]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id EAN49568 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:34:55 +0200 (IST) Original-To: David Kastrup X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:07:30 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35269 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35269 > Cc: "Jan D." , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > mathias.dahl@gmail.com > From: David Kastrup > Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:07:30 +0200 > > > The COM interface itself is part of the OS. Much like DND. > > Yes, like the DLL interface Sigh. No, not like the DLL interface. COM is implemented in 2 system libraries (depending on the Windows version): compobj.dll and ole32.dll. So it's like any other system call, which Emacs clearly does use. (You could have trusted me on that one, you know, or at least googled a bit before posting something that is simply untrue. That would save some bandwidth, if nothing else.)