OpenEuphoria

Re: Accessing an Exe written in C

• Posted by ramarin at teleport.com Sep 10, 2003
• 360 views

Matt Lewis wrote:

> 
> 
>>From: Stephen O' Sullivan [mailto:stephen_o__sullivan at hotmail.com] 
>>
>>Hi All,
>>I am relatively new to Euphoria, so forgive me if this an obivous 
>>question.
>>
>>What I have is a Exe written in C, that I want to access in 
>>Euphoria. I 
>>know how to acess the interfaces in VB. All I have to do is add the 
>>reference to my project and use code, such as follows, to 
>>call funtions 
>>and procedures:
>>
>>Dim MyInterFace as InterFaceName
>>...
>>Set MyInterface=New LibName
>>MyInterFace.Procedure (params)
>>MyInterFace.Function (params)
>>...
>>
>>Does anybody know how to do this in Euphoria?
> 
> 
> What you seem to be describing here seems to be a COM object (VB just loves
> 'em).  You can use EuCOM (see the user archives) to interface with the exe.
> The first thing you'll want to do is to use TBROWSE (comes with EuCOM) to
> wrap the object.  Then, your Eu version of the VB example would look
> something like:
> 
> include EuCOM.ew
> include InterfaceName.ew
> 
> integer MyInterface
> object result
> 
> MyInterface = create_com_object( InterfaceName_clsid_ix )
> 
> result = invoke( MyInterface, {MyInterface_m_Procedure[,optional param
> names]},
>   {[params]},{[param data types]},DISPATCH_METHOD )
> 
> result = invoke( MyInterface, {MyInterface_m_Function[,optional param
> names]},
>   {[params]},{[param data types]},DISPATCH_METHOD )
> 
> 
> It's a bit more complicated, but it's really not too hard once you get the
> hang of it (just more typing).  Take a look at EuCOM, read the Docs and FAQ,
> and let me know if you have any other questions.
> 
> Matt Lewis
> 
> 
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