From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:54:11 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed05032703218114182@mail.gmail.com> <01c53303$Blat.v2.4$a73df0a0@zahav.net.il> <9b41d48c93314b0c6799e1e979d06615@swipnet.se> <01c5334d$Blat.v2.4$8fddbfe0@zahav.net.il> <01c533dd$Blat.v2.4$a94e5800@zahav.net.il> <94886a4fa3b38490544f76b86eabddf9@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112089580 3262 80.91.229.2 (29 Mar 2005 09:46:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 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 11:46:16 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGDIF-00054i-Uj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:45:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGDYU-0008K8-Jo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:02:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGCyl-0008Tb-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:25:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DGCyh-0008T7-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:25:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGCx1-00086a-75 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:23:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DGCUF-0002jP-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:54:11 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DGCUE-0002h2-TG; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:54:11 -0500 Original-To: "Jan D." In-Reply-To: <94886a4fa3b38490544f76b86eabddf9@swipnet.se> (Jan D.'s message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:11:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:35293 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35293 "Jan D." writes: >> 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. > > > Isn't that like saying that dynamic loading of libraries is > implemented in the system call dlopen, and that is like any other > system call? [...] The details are definitely quite irrelevant to Emacs development, so I think we shall survive without an unanimous opinion about this matter that I was so stupid as to bring up myself. Is this supposed to be a conspiracy to teach me? I got the lesson. I'll try being very careful in future in mentioning irrelevant stuff. Promise. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum