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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: mathias.dahl@gmail.com, "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:07:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5u0mwozh9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c5334d$Blat.v2.4$8fddbfe0@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 28 Mar 2005 06:20:04 +0200")

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mathias.dahl@gmail.com
>> From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
>> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:00:22 +0200
>> 
>> But how can you tell if an object is a standard component in the OS or 
>> not?  AFAIK anybody can make ActiveX/COM-objects.  Much like shared 
>> libraries on Unix.
>
> The COM interface itself is part of the OS.  Much like DND.

Yes, like the DLL interface for which a way of accessing it from
within Emacs in a general way was ruled out.

I quite fail to see how your assessment of the situation differs from
mine, but it is not really important.  Either way, Mathias should have
all the information he needs for now.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-28 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-27 11:21 Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs Mathias Dahl
2005-03-27 12:18 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-27 13:27   ` Mathias Dahl
2005-03-28 16:26     ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-28 18:38       ` David Kastrup
2005-03-27 19:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-27 19:48     ` David Kastrup
2005-03-27 20:00     ` Jan D.
2005-03-27 21:24       ` Mathias Dahl
2005-03-28  4:20       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-28 10:07         ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-03-28 11:06           ` Mathias Dahl
2005-03-28 14:33             ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-28 18:42               ` David Kastrup
2005-03-28 21:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-29  5:11             ` Jan D.
2005-03-29  8:54               ` David Kastrup
2005-03-28  5:28 ` Peter Lee
2005-03-28 15:53 ` Kai Großjohann
2005-03-28 16:26 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-28 20:15 ` Jérôme Marant

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