[redirected to dev@] On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > At Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:58:07 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> At Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:50:46 +0200, herak...@gmx.de wrote: >> > I have an ocx-control and I would like to use it from Racket. >> > >> > Is it possible to bind this control in any way to Racket/Scheme? >> >> I think the way to do that is to use IE as an ActiveX container. >> >> Below is an example that starts the "MSCAL.Calendar" control. As you >> can see, I didn't figure out how to tell IE that it should trust the >> control (so there's an 8-second pause while I click to allow in IE), >> but maybe this will be enough to give you some ideas. > > Here's an improved example, but it depends on improvements and repairs > in the latest `ffi/com' implementation in the git repo. The changes > support calling the `write' method of an IE document and correctly > reference-counting objects that are received as event arguments. It > uses the "Sysmon" control that is included with Windows (I think), and > it avoids creating a temporary file.
If this avoids constructing a temporary file, could we use it on Windows for the documentation search? -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
