Activex

[bpollock]

Has anyone converted this DLL to activex? If so, can you post a copy or PM me

Thanks

[Paul Henty]

If you mean you want to use it as an in-process COM object then it's possible for me to add a COM wrapper. However, it the DLL would still be managed code and would still required the .NET runtime to be installed. I can't guarantee it would work but you're welcome to try. If you mean an invisible activex user interface control, that could be a bit more difficult but I'm happy to look into it. 

 

If you're looking for a non-managed, COM version of this DLL then it doesn't exist. There may be other COM interfaces to FSUIPC written in other (more appropriate) languages like C++ but you'd need to ask up in the main support forum.

 

Alternatively, if you want to give a bit more information about how exactly you want to access the DLL (e.g. languages, development and runtime environments etc), I might be able to suggest a better solution than COM interop to managed code.

 

Paul

[bpollock]

Sorry, should have been a bit more descriptive. I am a bit old school and still program using Microsoft Visual Foxpro. Currently I use a VB.NET app that I wrote using your DLL to feed fsuipc offsets to my VFP app. I would like to cut out the middleman and be able to read offsets directly in VFP using an activex control

Hopefully this is possible. If not, I will continue to use my VB feeder app.

Thanks

Brian

[Paul Henty]

Hi Brian,

 

I've had a look at it and it's not possible without a lot of work.

 

The main stumbling block is that the Offset(Of Type) class uses .NET generics to specify the type of the offset. COM/ActiveX has no such concept so it can't be mapped directly.  This means the automatic COM visibility option I was planning on using will just ignore the Offset class  It's probably possible to manually add a separate set of interfaces/methods that could be called via COM, but it would be a big job to work it all out and test it.

 

If you want to pursue the idea of an ActiveX or (more likely) a COM DLL then try asking up in the main support forum. It's more of a C/C++ programmers job.

 

Paul

 

 

[bpollock]

Ok. I appreciate you looking into it. I will just stick with my Frankenstein approach...lol