Awesome :) Anyone on Windows want to give it a try?
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Brian <brian.p.mcdev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With the help of Tony Juckel and Charlie the basic functionality of win32ole
> is working. I'm in the process of adding the MRI/test/win32ole dir to this
> Jacob project and fleshing out the rest of the impl. Feel free to pitch in.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter <head...@headius.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Joseph Athman <jjath...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> As far as the FFI version goes, I must say that I don't really know where
>>> to
>>> start. I'm trying to understand what's happening in the Win32API.rb and
>>> samples/ffi rb files, but I must say they are pretty cryptic to me. If
>>> I've
>>> never done C programming before will I be pretty lost? I certainly don't
>>> want to ask for so much help that one of you might as well be doing it
>>> for
>>> me, but if someone could explain more of what's happening in one of these
>>> files that might get me a long ways.
>>
>> I think the author of that win32/ole library you point out below
>> (Daniel Berger) does have an FFI version of it somewhere too, but I
>> don't know where.
>>
>> FFI definitely requires some knowledge of C, since you'll have to
>> understand how the functions get bound and how arguments are passed
>> and the size and shape of structures. If you really don't know C at
>> all, you'd probably be better off helping on the Jacob version.
>>
>>> Also, I was going some googling and I found that someone has been working
>>> on
>>> a pure ruby version of this library
>>> http://github.com/djberg96/pr-win32ole.
>>> I tried installing and using it but I had a problem. It looks like a
>>> pretty monstrous piece of ruby, but would this be better than FFI or
>>> Jacob
>>> if it worked?
>>
>> It appears that pr-win32ole depends on his win32-api library which
>> uses a native extension to Ruby, so that's unfortunately out. If he
>> has an FFI backend somewhere, that might be workable.
>>
>> - Charlie
>>
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