Er... following up on my own suggestion ... MakePy works in large part by generating lots of Python code corresponding to the OLE object to be bound.
Rather than recreating all of MakePy in Perl, it would be much faster to modify MakePy so that it can optionally generate Perl code which is the equivalent of the Python code that it's already generating. Then a developer who needed early bindings in Perl could install Python on their own system, run MakePy, and then write the rest of their Perl code. Note that only the person making these original modifications to MakePy would actually need to write some Python code. -Jonathan At 10:24 AM 2/20/2002 , Jonathan Epstein wrote: >Nearly everything IS possible in Perl. > >In Python for Win32, a tool called MakePy makes it possible to use early-bound >automation. If you'd like to read about this, see chapter 12 of Mark Hammond's book >_Python Programming on Win32_. > >Of course, Python is all open-source, so you can investigate this to your heart's >content. > >Perhaps you or someone else can implement this same idea for Perl, if ActiveState >hasn't done so already. I'd be surprised if they haven't already done this, since I >believe that Mark Hammond now works for ActiveState. If a commercial package is an >option, I suggest digging a little deeper into ActiveState's current offerings. > >-Jonathan > > >At 05:33 PM 2/19/2002 , Amir Kashani wrote: > > > That's because you're still trying to call a method on the TestClass2 > > > object, which does not expose an IDispatch interface (what's known as > > > "late binding"). You have to have a method on your COM object that > > > will then delegate internally to the method on the TestClass2 object, > > > hidden from the user. > > > >I don't understand why the object returned by calling the property would a > >TestClass2 object, when the property returns a TestClass1 object (which I > >believe would be an IDispatch object). From the research I've done on this, > >it seems to be a problem shared among scripting languages because of their > >lack of support for early bindings. I don't understand, however, why this > >workaround would work in VBScript, but not in Perl. Maybe it's just my > >stubborness in believing that everything is possible from Perl. > > > >Jonathan Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Head, Unit on Biologic Computation (301)402-4563 >Office of the Scientific Director Bldg 31, Room 2A47 >Nat. Inst. of Child Health & Human Development 31 Center Drive >National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892 >_______________________________________________ >Perl-Win32-Users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
