COM objects?

[michael at ortv.com]

How about incorporating DLLs and other objects? I have seen references to incorporating "externals" and Altuit even has a browser component that looks quite good. Are there any pointers to documentation on that?

As mentioned on
http://runrev.com/Revolution1/keyfeatures1.html

There is a reported SDK for creating these externals.... Ah just did a google search for runrev external sdk pointing to

http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2003-June/016976.html

which points back to Metacards starter kit http://www.metacard.com/get.html which includes the download for the SDK files. I don't see much documentation yet on getting started but maybe that'll help for the UNIX based Rev apps as well.

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Rice [mailto:alex at mindlube.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 6:25 AM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: COM objects?


On Dec 16, 2003, at 3:15 PM, Steve Ralston wrote:

> We might be working on a Rev app that sits on a Unix server and talks
> to a couple other programs, if it is possible. I'm not at all
> well-versed in COM, so if I say something blatantly stupid regarding
> COM, please forgive and bear with me.

There could be Unix implementations of COM but it is generally a MS
Windows-only tech.

AFIAK Rev can't do COM, Windows or not, without some fancy C external
writing.

For interprocess communication on Unix one might expect TCP/IP or
shared memory or pipes and processes. Or CORBA or other "ORB"s (object
request brokers).

Revolution has TCP/IP and open process support. But not shared memory
or the others.

Hope this helps,

Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> | Mindlube Software |
<http://mindlube.com>

what a waste of thumbs that are opposable
to make machines that are disposable  -Ani DiFranco

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