OpenEuphoria

RE: Brief WinClass: Specs, Purpose

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at yahoo.com> Sep 15, 2003
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> From: Al Getz [mailto:Xaxo at aol.com] 
> 
> Thanks for the info on it.
> It looks like it may be a little while before i get to doing 
> anything with AX.  For one thing, i'd like to take some time 
> to check out the use of the Linux op system, which a number 
> of people are using these days.
> 
> What do you think is the primary reason for using AX in 
> an application?  What kind of functionality does it bring
> to the app that cant be done another way?

There are a lot of ActiveX objects out there that do lots of different
things.  For instance, Microsoft Office is basically a bunch of ActiveX
objects (I include an Excel and a Word demo in EuCOM).  Many other
applications use ActiveX objects as add-ins.  You can dynamically plug
ActiveX objects into an application this way.  They're basically dlls, but
with some rules about how you interact with them.  The standardization makes
it easier to use different ActiveX objects vs. using different dlls, where
each dll would likely have its own, proprietary API.  The COM interfaces
allow you to use binary code written in other languages because of the
standardization. 

Matt Lewis