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COM Tutorial (work in progress)

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I started this quite a while ago but my work on PB itself has taken most of my time lately,
so like many of my sideprojects this one drew the short straw.

Since it is unlikely that i get this finished anytime soon, and since a lot is going on
around the use of COM in PB lately, i release this as a "work in progress".
It is not finished, but still some of the sections are done and contain useful information.
The intention is to one day have a set of tutorials covering everything COM/PB
related from the basics to the very advanced stuff. (thats why this is called "Part 1")
I can really not make any promises on this though as it might take forever.

The tutorial is aimed at using the PB Interfaces to access COM objects,
but it should also be of use to those that just want to use ts-soft's library.

Get it here: http://freak.purearea.net/help/COMTutorial.pdf

Comments are welcome.
If you find any spelling mistakes you can keep them, but you may not sell them for profit ;)

btw, if somebody with good COM knowledge wants to continue my work, i can provide the LaTeX source for the tutorial.
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freak wrote:If you find any spelling mistakes you can keep them, but you may not sell them for profit
:lol:


Thanks for this Freak!
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Great stuff. I'm going to read through it right now.

Thanks freak. 8)
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Post by Dare »

Hi Freak!

Drop everything else! Do the "to do" bits!

This is great. Written at a level I can get my head around. I am only on page 8 of the doc and I have already had a couple of "aha" experiences.

Appreciate this big time.
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Nice guide, thanks Freak!
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Dare wrote:Hi Freak!

Drop everything else! Do the "to do" bits!

This is great. Written at a level I can get my head around. I am only on page 8 of the doc and I have already had a couple of "aha" experiences.

Appreciate this big time.
ditto - except the "Drop everything else!" part, if you're close to a 4.03 for windows :)

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thanks fr34k
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thanks! :D

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Post by Konne »

That is the best thing I ever read about COM. Wow, please replace the ToDo stuff.

Thx very much!
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You know what we need now, what with all these fab COM resources coming our way: a separate COM forum! :wink:

hehe.

(This is not my idea; Dare put me up to this! Well, at least I'm sure that he would have done given enough time! :twisted: )
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Post by ts-soft »

@srod
We have a chance if egrid5.ocx was finished :wink:
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ts-soft wrote:@srod
We have a chance if egrid5.ocx was finished :wink:
:lol:

It's not that I wouldn't know how to finish egrid5.ocx as it is more a case of not knowing where to start!

Besides, I'n not convinced actually creating ocx's is a worthwhile use of one's time. Sure it's very useful to be able to tap into the wealth of such controls lying around, but for me COM is more useful for mixing it with the Windows shell etc. Everything else can be done with good old PB and a moderate dose of sleeve rolling, brow beating, book trawling, and if that fails; MSDN etc.

Ah stuff it, I'll just ask netmaestro and sparkie! :wink:
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Great stuff! and very professional looking! :D
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srod wrote:You know what we need now, what with all these fab COM resources coming our way: a separate COM forum! :wink:

hehe.
:)

srod wrote:(This is not my idea; Dare put me up to this!)
:shock: Mind control works! :shock:


Actually I just instantiated an instance of "Nag_Freak_Incessantly" in the "WeWannaComBoard" class.


srod wrote:Ah stuff it, I'll just ask netmaestro and sparkie! :wink:
:lol:
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Re: COM Tutorial (work in progress)

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freak wrote: Comments are welcome.
If you find any spelling mistakes you can keep them, but you may not sell them for profit ;)
Darn! I had a buyer all lined up for the spelling mistakes too. :)

I learned more about COM from your tutorial then i've learned from reading the forums (except for your TODO parts :))...I sure wish you would continue its development. You have a good style, clean, straight forward and to the point, and from your writing its seems you have a natural gift for explaining things simply and helpfully. Please consider continuing this great (and for me - invaluable) tutorial.

Thank You freak :)
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