On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Marcos Douglas <m...@delfire.net> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Lars <nore...@z505.com> wrote: >> Marcos Douglas wrote: >>>> (I guess something like COM by microsoft was invented so you could reuse >>>> components within other tools, i.e. C++ COM components worked in VB, >>>> right? I don't know much about COM technology, or activex. Â I remember >>>> one >>>> day I tried installing an Excel component for Delphi (you could embed >>>> Microsoft Excel into a delphi application). Cool, because you could >>>> reuse >>>> Excel within another tool and it didn't matter if Excel was written in >>>> C++, it still worked in your delphi application.) >>> >>> And it still works on Delphi and FPC. ;-) >> >> >> Did you try COM components in fpc/laz? Like excel or something similar? I >> never bothered trying in fpc yet. > > Well, today I'm using an ActiveX with FPC 2.6.1 in production with success. > > About Office: > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Office_Automation#Using_COM_Automation_to_interact_with_OpenOffice_and_Microsoft_Office > > Ludo Brands is working in an interesting tool: > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2011-May/063491.html
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