Difference between revisions of "Com Programming in Free Pascal"

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COM is a Windows only technology used for communicating with external code. COM is e.g. used in ActiveX.

Some of these also have nice demos attached. See also closed bug Issue #0014204.

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reference counting is not working (DllCanUnloadClass returns 1)
load/register typelib
register/unregister (incomplete implementation from visual studio RGS sample file)
integrate WIDL.exe (wine version of MIDL)
finish TTypedComObject
create TAutoObject
implement tlbimp.exe
port to linux as NPAPI wrapper (just partially kidding ;) as base you can us my updated NPAPI scripting code (https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8708) [^] - already working with FPC (similar entry point functions as in COM) :)

integrate MIDL.exe (wine old version of MIDL has an incorrect output format :( )
try building latest WIDL -> report bugs to wine
create TAutoObject
finish tlbimp.exe (bug 0014802)
TEST, TEST, TEST :) serious

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 See [http://bugs.freepascal.org/search.php?project_id=6&status_id%5B%5D=10&status_id%5B%5D=20&status_id%5B%5D=30&status_id%5B%5D=40&status_id%5B%5D=50&sticky_issues=on&sortby=last_updated&dir=DESC&hide_status_id=-2&tag_string=com Open Mantis items with COM tag ].
-Currently
-* {{MantisLink|0014822}}
-* {{MantisLink|0014204}}
-* {{MantisLink|0010569}}
-* and some items about interfaces)
-Some of these (most notably 14822) also have nice demos attached.
+Some of these also have nice demos attached. See also closed bug {{MantisLink|0014204}}.
 == Urls ==
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 [[Category:FPC]]
+[[Category:Windows]]