Hi Joseph,
I might be *totally* off the base, so don't pay too much attention to
what I'm going to say ;)
Now that JRuby has great FFI support, my understanding is that one
might implement WIN32OLE purely in ruby.
Like, for example, we implement Win32API.rb (lib\ruby\1.8\Win32API.rb).
Is there particular reason you're going to implement WIN32OLE in Java?
Thanks,
--Vladimir
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Joseph Athman <jjath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've always wanted to contribute something to JRuby so I was looking through
> JIRA and noticed that JRuby still does not have the WIN32OLE api, I thought
> maybe that is something I could try and implement. I quickly discovered
> that I'm not totally sure how to go about this though. I was trying to look
> at some of the other ruby standard lib classes that have been created, but
> I'm hoping I could get a little help here. My two main questions are about
> the @JRubyMethod annotation and the actual method parameters. It seems like
> some methods take a ThreadContext object while some don't. Take for example
> this method from the WIN32OLE class:
>
> WIN32OLE.connect('Excel.Application') # => WIN32OLE object which represents
> running Excel.
>
> What would the method signature for that look like? I'm guessing this would
> be a static Java method, but I'm not sure. Would there just be one
> parameter in the Java code? Would it be an IRubyObject or would be be a
> RubyString? I looked on the JRuby wiki but I didn't really see anything
> about this. If there is more information out there you can just point me in
> that direction. Thanks for any help.
>
> Joe
>
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