World: r3wp

I think it's a little silly having to ask developers not to develop 
something even if it's fairly possible to do.

I think and I hope, that R3 design will be correct this time! No 
more integrated third party stuff, which does NOT belong to the kernel! 
The situation with fast-cgi was hilarious. It was never fixed under 
Windows, ot my knowledge ...

I prefer plug-in system, so that if someone develops something interesting, 
I can buy it! RT or third party ...

Just dunno, if security (https) can be done that way, support for 
certificates etc., it is belongs to kernel ...

I just found a nice way to simplify the usage, so the demos are going 
to get a little bit shorter.

I've added about ten newly converted demos to the site. Please send 
me any scripts you would like converted. I've done quite a few now 
so it will be easy. Then you can see the differences for yourself 
more easily, too. Graham, I'm thinking of your Skype script.

Renamed this group from "COM Supporting" -> "Windows/COM Support"

Did you want me to have a go at updating the SkyPe script ?

I just thought of it as one of the scripts that have already been 
created. Send me any scripts you wish converted.

Now is a good time because it's fresh in my mind.

Should make this group web-public. Any objections ?

no objections

I don't think there's anything in this group that anyone would be 
offended by publishing...

Anton, cool stuff. Thanks for doing it.

It's good to finally publish.

Any non-ms office demos?

skype is not ms office

Terry, how about  MSScriptControl.r.  Were you thinking of anything 
in particular?

haa.. just got FOR_EACH working.

Added demos/ado.r  - ActiveX Data Objects read and manipulate data 
from a data source.

Text to speech demo is working.

(not added to the site quite yet.)

Anton, OK DL'd the zip file, tried a couple of files, realized I 
needed Pro, ran Pro, sat amazed. Nice stuff my man. Thanks.

Sure, thanks !  I need to remind everyone here also of Benjamin Maggi's 
great effort in starting this project to begin with.

Mmm.. that's two people who commented on the requirement for external 
library access - I will add a message about that somewhere.

Where's the file Anton?

text to speech ? not added to website yet. The demo is supposed to 
show two different ways of getting text to speech; via MS Agent and 
via SAPI. I haven't got the MS Agent one working properly yet on 
my system.

Anton, do you have a source for documentation on the COM lib itself. 
I.e., what it can do?

OK, found something. I bet we have some books in the office as well: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/com/html/f5f66603-466c-496b-be29-89a8ed9361dd.asp

Yep, six books.

Thanks for the link !  I don't actually know that much about COM, 
as it is a proprietary technology, I have avoided it til now.

That link is not really the best in terms of the nitty gritty. A 
search through the MSDN site will show other places to look.

Yes, you can flop around in the MSDN archive for a while before you 
find what you want.  An example which I am working on now is extracting 
Calendar data from Outlook.

Updated COMLib website a little bit.  Amongst other small changes, 
added demos/speech.r

If you've got an older distro, you can just download the full zip 
and extract the files over your old directory.

I would like someone to test the speech and let me know if the MS 
Agent character actually talks or not.

On my computer, only balloon text is shown.

(This is not urgent, just when you can be bothered)

link?

http://home.wilddsl.net.au/anton/rebol/os/windows/COMLib/files.html

TTS worked, the ms agent just had the bubble.

I have some old ms agent code around somewhere that I used with LFReD, 
along with a dialect.. I'll see if i can find it.

The MS TTS is pretty old technology.. Sounds like Vista may has much 
better speech recognition and a new TTS.  Should check out the beta.

Righto, thanks :)

We'll find out what the difference is.

COM with PHP is soo easy...  drop this into a page on your local 
server.. 

<?

$word=new COM("word.application") or die("Cannot start word for you");
print "Loaded word version ($word->Version)\n";
$word->visible =1;
$word->Documents->Add();
$word->Selection->Typetext("Dit is een test");
$word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("burb ofzo.doc");
$word->Quit();
?>

Want Macro support.. ? 

<?
$obj = new COM("AutoItX3.Control");
$obj->CDTray ("H:", "open");
$obj->Sleep (1000);
$obj->CDTray ("H:", "close");
?>

Not to be critical, but the php syntax is much clearer.

Yes, you can do the chaining of objects easily, and pass args to 
functions directly, without using the printf-style syntax.

I am quite sure I can do better with rebol, but I would have to turn 
DispHelper inside out to find out the way. As it is, I have left 
DispHelper untouched.

How RT manages to charge for library access I'll never understand 
(even though I paid for it .. once).