Hi, I tested this out and found at least one issue. I posted it on the issues page at github: http://github.com/bpmcd/win32ole/issues
I would also like to propose this gets included in the windows installer for jruby 1.5.0. Even if it has some bugs to be worked out, it would great to have something out there to roll with. Thanks, Brandon Hauff > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Oliver Nutter [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 1:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [jruby-dev] Guidance on adding to JRuby > > Awesome :) Anyone on Windows want to give it a try? > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Brian <[email protected]> > 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 > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Joseph Athman <[email protected]> > 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 > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > >> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > >> > >> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email >
