Michael Goffioul wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Philip Nienhuis<pr.nienh...@hccnet.nl> > wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Michael Goffioul >>> <michael.goffi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> The java package uses the same system, so if it works for java object, it >>>> should >>>> logically also work for COM objects. >> >> Yes, I thought of that too, but: >> (1) I saw no warnings about deprecated "dispatch" when installing the java >> package. >> (2) In the java pkg PKG_ADD >> (...\lib\octave\packages\java-1.2.8\i686-pc-mingw32-api-v45+ there are no >> dispatch statements at all, while there are many in the corresponding >> windows-1.0.8 pkg PKG_ADD. >> (3) In __java__.cc there's no "dispatch" text snippet to be found, >> __COM__.cc is riddled with it (DISPATCH_METHOD etc). But I might be looking >> in the wrong place. > > I took another look and I don't think the "dispatch" warning is > related. The dispatch is/was > used to change the implementation of standard octave functions when > called with a COM > object. For instance, calling get(obj, ...) would result in > com_get(obj, ...) being called. The > same for set, invoke, delete... > OTOH the error you're seeing is a subsref problem, as used with syntax > like obj.something. > (Note also that the DISPATCH_METHOD and similar are related to Win32 > COM automation, > it's different from the dispatch mechanism from octave). > > To debug, you'd need an octave version compiled with debug enabled. > Then I guess the > easiest would be to put a breakpoint on the error() function from > octave (see error.cc) > and dump a backtrace to see where it's coming from.
Understood. I'm still a long way from being able to build even a "regular" Octave on MingW/Windows, so I'll just (have to) leave it for now. Thanks, Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
