World: r3wp

What changes ?

To see some changes, click on Browse Files, then docs/convert-ben-to-anton.txt

Anton, how stable is your fork?

is it more stable than Benjamin's ? Although I can't say I've had 
any problems with his.

I am confident in it. That is why I have published. I worked really 
hard for the last couple of weeks. I feel the new API is not likely 
to change very much from here.

I have removed the use of callbacks, so there is no chance for indeterminate 
behaviour due to the asynchronous operation of callbacks. Exceptions 
are now thrown as rebol errors, so you can use standard rebol error 
checking.

I have scrutinized the API and cleaned it up, removing seemingly 
arbitrary divergences from DispHelper function names.

Ok.  I'll have to test it in the weekend.

Also, I am here to support it fully.

COMlib requires a /Pro license, right?

Yes, to access external library.

ok

(maybe it would be worth mentioning to avoid too much excitement?) 
:-)

why? will not RT release library interface as any other normal language, 
for free? ;-)

I was suspecting it could be working over TCP/IP like Geomol's OpenGL 
library

but that would be a big security hole :-)

I will be checking out RebCall at some time to see if it can be used.
http://mortimer.devcave.net/projects/rebcall

interesting one

who is mortimer.systems? :-)

On his site, there is RebFcgi that can be interesting too. But only 
for Windows !

Any skilled Linux/C coder to addapt it for a Linux Apache Module 
???

just ask DocKimbel to release his xy years old version. He did not 
do that, because RT asked him not to do so. IMO fastcgi is not feature 
which would ruin RT sales. Except secure mode there is very little 
value in the rest of Command - outdated ...

for continous value in Command, you'd need something bigger. a different 
business strategy comes to mind.

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?