Hi Jürgen,
thank you very much for your answer!
> Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
>> it seems that the OOo installation under Windows
does not install the
>> OLE/COM typelib. Is this intentional, or a user
error?
>
> we don't have such a typelib. All type information
necessary for the
> OLE automation bridge is generated dynamically from the
UNO type library.
>
> We don't have a real COM language binding and that is
the reason why
> we haven't such a typelib.
I see.
>> If intentional can one generate the type library
from DLLs (to use in
>> the context of Windows ActiveX
automation/scripting), if so how (which
>> files to use for that) ?
> which dll's? Probably not, maybe it would be possible
to generate them
> based on the type library but no tooling is available
yet and no
> tooling is planned.
> If you have plans to go in this direction please let us
know and we
> can probably support you with the necessary input.
Well, as I prefer an openplatform solution I am happy with
the available
Java binding which can be used from scripting languages to
script/automate OOo (using Apache Jakarta's BSF,
<http://jakarta.apac
he.org/bsf>, where version 2.4.0 is about to get
released).
OTOH I got a query from a Windows-only-user who wanted to
know how
addressing OOo would be different, and for that purpose the
COM/OLE
typelib was sought. It would allow for documenting the
Windows exposed
APIs at runtime. The respective is available in the Windows
registry,
one can create instances of the OOo COM classes, but
querying for types
and signatures just returns no information, e.g.:
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com.sun.star.ServiceManager
Definitions from typelib: [LIBNAME] with the brief
documentation: [LIBDOC]
/In Registry since: / /20060704 09:26:06 /
Description OpenOffice.org Service Manager (Ver 1.0)
CLSID
VersionIndependentProgID com.sun.star.ServiceManager
ProgID com.sun.star.ServiceManager.1
LocalServer32 D:\Programme\OpenOffice.org
2.0\program\soffice.exe
-nodefault -nologo
show 0 Method[s]
No.
Name
Documentation, Argument[s], Return Value
show 0 Read-only Properties
No.
Name
Documentation, Return Value
show 0 Write-only Properties
No.
Name
Documentation, Argument[s], Return Value
show 0 Read/Write Properties
No.
Name
Documentation, Argument[s], Return Value
show 0 Methods with Unknown Invocation Type Properties
No.
Name
Documentation, Argument[s], Return Value
show 0 Event(s)
No.
Name
Documentation, Argument[s], Return Value
show 0 Constant(s)
No.
Name
Value
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<http://www.RexxLA.org>*
("rgf_oleinfo.html") on [20060925 16:22:20]
run
by [Administrator/RONYFUJI \\RONYFUJI]
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Or one of the OOo documents:
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soffice.StarCalcDocument.6
Definitions from typelib: [LIBNAME] with the brief
documentation: [LIBDOC]
/In Registry since: / /20060704 09:26:06 /
Description OpenOffice.org 1.1 Tabelle
CLSID
VersionIndependentProgID soffice.StarCalcDocument.6
ProgID soffice.StarCalcDocument.6
LocalServer32 D:\Programme\OpenOffice.org
2.0\program\soffice.exe
-nodefault -nologo
InProcHandler32 ole32.dll
/[D:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll]/
/[2005-07-26 06:39:49] [1,285,120 Bytes/]
show 0 Method[s]
No.
Name
Documentation, Argument[s], Return Value
show 0 Read-only Properties
No.
Name
Documentation, Return Value
show 0 Write-only Properties
No.
Name
Documentation, Argument[s], Return Value
show 0 Read/Write Properties
No.
Name
Documentation, Argument[s], Return Value
show 0 Methods with Unknown Invocation Type Properties
No.
Name
Documentation, Argument[s], Return Value
show 0 Event(s)
No.
Name
Documentation, Argument[s], Return Value
show 0 Constant(s)
No.
Name
Value
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<http://www.RexxLA.org>*
("rgf_oleinfo.html") on [20060925 16:22:41]
run
by [Administrator/RONYFUJI\\RONYFUJI]
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So in order to use the COM classes one needs to know the
interfaces from
the OOo documentation and can use them (the dispatching
seems to work
nicely).
---
Again, it is not a problem for me. Just wanted to make sure,
that it was
not us who made an error at install time of OOo.
Regards,
---rony
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