can we create com object with Lazarus ?

[candide]

Hi

with current release of Lazarus, we can manage com object like Excel or Word on Windows XP , but can we create com object ?

do we have a tool to create a TLB file ?

Thanks for your help

[marcov]

Not in the release.

In trunk of FPC this is getting close (I assume it will work before summer)

[Paul Ishenin]

Look here: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Web_Service_Toolkit - the toolkit has a type library editor.

Althought type library editor generates WSDL files instead of IDL/TLB

[Wodzu]

Do we really can manage Excel and Word from FPC? last time I've checked there were no such possibility (few months ago).

i even remeber that somone said that this is an OS-specific thing and it rather won't be implemented.

[marcov]

Do we really can manage Excel and Word from FPC? last time I've checked there were no such possibility (few months ago).

i even remeber that somone said that this is an OS-specific thing and it rather won't be implemented.

Afaik that already works fine in the current (2.4.0) release. See the demoes in fpc/packages/winunits-base/examples. in the fpc sources.

[Paul Ishenin]

Working with excel and word is possible. I tried to work with internet explorer using dispinterfaces and this worked fine (fpc 2.5.1 only).

[Wodzu]

Guys this is an excellent news!