COM Tutorial (work in progress)

Bonne_den_kule · Post by **Bonne_den_kule** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:22 pm

Nice tutorial.

pdwyer · Post by **pdwyer** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:49 am

are there any examples around of how this works? Just a simple skeleton so I can see a full yet short piece of code that runs?

Maybe something like geting the size of a harddisk from wmi or using a filesystemopbject

electrochrisso · Post by **electrochrisso** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:43 am

I agree, a nice tutorial

Keep up the good work.

SimpleMind · Post by **SimpleMind** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:12 pm

Thanks Freak! Nice work.

srod · Post by **srod** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:23 pm

Aye, read freak's tutorial first and then a couple more scattered about the web and suddenly COM doesn't look quite such a tough nut to crack after all. Very simple actually if just using existing components.

I even read a tutorial on creating com objects in c and even this doesn't look massively complex. Although the question of how (and when) you create GUID's does puzzle me a little! Still, why the hell would I want to create a com object anyhow?

Oh yea, the damn Window's shell...

SimpleMind · Post by **SimpleMind** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:48 pm

Hi srod,

Yeah, I know. Once you know about the vtable stuff it's becomming clearer and that you just use an table of function pointers..... The Variant was a hurdle too but looks easy now.

I know the C stuff article: "COM in plain C", nice stuff. There is a whole series of it at The Code Project.

Why would I use COM. I want just to pull on the strings to play with MSWord from PureBasic.