Special sub-forum for COM programming

Little John · Post by **Little John** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:30 pm

Hi all,

as far as I can see, COMate actually is a "milestone", in that it adds a whole new bunch of programming possibilities to PureBasic. I think COMate is very powerful, but also not too easy to use, at least for beginners. For instance, how can one get to know all the (200?, 500?, ...?) command-strings which can be used with a ""Word.Document"" object?

I think in the course of time, there will be a lot of questions in conjunction with srod's new versatile and powerful tool. COMate probably also offers some interesting possibilities for writing custom programmes for small to medium-sized companies, I think.

So wouldn't it be useful to have a sub-forum dedicated to COMate?

Regards, Little John

Post by **freak** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:06 am

> as far as I can see, COMate actually is a "milestone", in that it adds a whole new bunch of programming possibilities to PureBasic.

People said the same thing about DispHelper, yet the discussions about it died down rather quickly.
Lets see how this develops first and decide then.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:37 am

Yes, I see. Thanks.

Regards, Little John

srod · Post by **srod** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:14 am

@Little John,

I don't think COMate in itself warrants a new sub-forum as such. Perhaps a subforum dedicated to COM in general would be a better idea, but then this idea has been raised in the past as well.

SFSxOI · Post by **SFSxOI** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:17 pm

Yes! A sub forum for COM would be great!

COMate, PureDispHelper, and all the other COM related things, seem to me to be a particular specific area of coding and a sub forum focused on COM would be great.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:04 pm

srod wrote:I don't think COMate in itself warrants a new sub-forum as such. Perhaps a subforum dedicated to COM in general would be a better idea,

Yep, that sounds more reasonable.

srod wrote:but then this idea has been raised in the past as well.

Well, when COMate's announcement thread has reached a size of 20 or 30 pages (which probably will happen in the near future), maybe then it's a good time to think about it again.

Regards, Little John

Little John · Post by **Little John** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:05 pm

Little John wrote:Well, when COMate's announcement thread has reached a size of 20 or 30 pages (which probably will happen in the near future) ...

Niels Bohr wrote:Prediction is very difficult,
especially about the future.

The first one who asks: "Who is Niels Bohr?" will get an extra point. XD

In this case, prediction wasn't exactly hard, though.

COMate's announcement thread now has 35 pages. When someone looks for something related to COMate using the forum search function, he'll very probably find that thread, and then can browse manually through the (currently) 35 pages ...

At least, it would make sense to create more often a seperate thread, rather than posting so many different things into the announcement thread.
However, COMate seems to get increasingly popular, and when there is a sub-forum only for 1 program (TailBite), it makes even more sense to create a sub-forum for a complex area such as COM programming.

Regards, Little John

srod · Post by **srod** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:10 pm

COMate's announcement thread now has 35 pages....

Yea but 30 of those pages have been filled by KCC !!!

Little John · Post by **Little John** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:14 pm

srod wrote:Yea but 30 of those pages have been filled by KCC !!!

So maybe there should be a special "Humor and entertainment" sub-forum for KCC?

Regards, Little John

Kwai chang caine · Post by **Kwai chang caine** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:56 pm

srod wrote:
COMate's announcement thread now has 35 pages....
Yea but 30 of those pages have been filled by KCC !!!

Decidely MASTER SROD, i love your knowledge.....but also your humor !!

Kwai chang caine · Post by **Kwai chang caine** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:05 pm

Little John wrote:
srod wrote:Yea but 30 of those pages have been filled by KCC !!!

So maybe there should be a special "Humor and entertainment" sub-forum for KCC?
Regards, Little John

Yes it's a good idea

Thanks little john

Like this i can talk with all the person who have the same brain that me...
Oyster, Mussel.....seafood what

But i accept also the Wafer, mule.....in my sub forum

Thanks for your humor too

JCV · Post by **JCV** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:57 pm

yup a nice idea to have a separate section for COM.
COMate seems easy to learn.

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:43 pm

Or perhaps a special section for Kwaï chang caïne

cheers

Kwai chang caine · Post by **Kwai chang caine** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:46 pm

rsts wrote:Or perhaps a special section for Kwaï chang caïne
cheers

Thanks Rsts

But seriously.....i think this idea great.
COM is really a big piece in the programming

Thanks to TsSoft and SROD, PB can play with the grow
And we see numerous code who appears everywhere

Perhaps MASTER SROD and TSSOFT, create a thread, where all this great codes, create by all the members, like Sfsx01 is together

Like a "TUTO" (in french)

Post by **idle** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:56 am

I'd agree on both counts for a separate com forum, though creating a sub forum for KCC wouldn't give him any time to write any code, as he'd be to busy answering his fan mail.