From: Fernando
Subject: Lispworks com automation sample code
Date: 
Message-ID: <9ad190l0oocmdbmgu2ilfsam71h603fdb5@4ax.com>
Hi,

I need to use some activeX dlls created with VB from Lisp (Lispworks).  I
already read the fine manual, but I'm still lost...

Does anyone have experience (or sample code) with this sort of stuff?

Ideally, I would like to have clos wrapper classes encapsulating the classes
defined in those dlls.

Thanks

PS: The interface of the VB classes is very simple, they only pass integers
and strings (BSTRs) back and forward. 
From: Andreas Hinze
Subject: Re: Lispworks com automation sample code
Date: 
Message-ID: <409149ec$0$270$4d4ebb8e@read.news.de.uu.net>
Hi Fernando,
maybe this question can better be answered on a special LispWorks mailing list.
Please look at www.lispworks.com for the details. You might also want to have
a look into the archive of that mailing list at www.gmane.org.
The list is gmane.lisp.lispworks.general.

Hope that helps

Regards
AHz

Fernando wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to use some activeX dlls created with VB from Lisp (Lispworks).  I
> already read the fine manual, but I'm still lost...
> 
> Does anyone have experience (or sample code) with this sort of stuff?
> 
> Ideally, I would like to have clos wrapper classes encapsulating the classes
> defined in those dlls.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> PS: The interface of the VB classes is very simple, they only pass integers
> and strings (BSTRs) back and forward. 
From: Kenny Tilton
Subject: Re: Lispworks com automation sample code
Date: 
Message-ID: <snkkc.70443$WA4.3250@twister.nyc.rr.com>
Fernando wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I need to use some activeX dlls created with VB from Lisp (Lispworks).  I
> already read the fine manual, but I'm still lost...
> 
> Does anyone have experience (or sample code) with this sort of stuff?

Caveat: i do not use Lispworks on a daily basis, so it may offer some 
easier solution. My thinking tho is that you might need to write some 
"glue" routines in C and have them talk to the VB dll (if that is even 
possible), or use COM or something. I have done the former (but I was 
talking to C++ classes), but not the COM thing.

> 
> Ideally, I would like to have clos wrapper classes encapsulating the classes
> defined in those dlls.

That would be nice if Lispworks offers some seamless solution. Faced 
with writing my own glue, I just worried about tapping into the bits I 
needed. Turned out it was well-designed library and I only had to glue 
up a few functions and I was done.

kenny

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From: Marco Antoniotti
Subject: Re: Lispworks com automation sample code
Date: 
Message-ID: <vi7mc.144$a5.46296@typhoon.nyu.edu>
Hi

I have a (almost) full blown implementation of the IActiveScript and 
IActiveScriptParse interfaces in LWW.  It will be complete "really soon 
now".

In the process I came up with a number of possible changes to the LWW 
COM interface.

In principle the core code should be easily portable to ACL.  I just did 
not have the time to do so.  Also, if I remember correctly, ACL COM 
interface requires explicit guid's.  Is that the case?

marco



Fernando wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to use some activeX dlls created with VB from Lisp (Lispworks).  I
> already read the fine manual, but I'm still lost...
> 
> Does anyone have experience (or sample code) with this sort of stuff?
> 
> Ideally, I would like to have clos wrapper classes encapsulating the classes
> defined in those dlls.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> PS: The interface of the VB classes is very simple, they only pass integers
> and strings (BSTRs) back and forward.
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