[fpc-devel] COM issues

[Matthias Hryniszak]

That's to bad. This means, that my previous question about interfaces.is to 
be butted in the same drawer..

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Florian Klaempfl" <florian at freepascal.org>
To: "FPC developers' list" <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] COM issues


> Matthias Hryniszak wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got a question about COM programming in FPC. In the docs
>> (http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu20.html) I've found:
>>
>> Variants and interfaces
>> Remark: Dispatch interface support for variants is currently broken in
>> the compiler.
>>
>> Is it still true?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Why when I try to compile this simple application
>>
>> program Test;
>>
>> {$MODE DELPHI}
>>
>> uses
>>  ActiveX, ComObj;
>>
>> var
>>  COM: Variant;
>>
>> begin
>>  CoInitialize(nil);
>>  COM := CreateOleObject('Shell.Application');
>>  COM.MinimizeAll;
>>  CoUninitialize;
>> end.
>>
>>
>> The compiler tells me:
>>
>> Free Pascal Compiler version 1.9.9 [2005/04/15] for i386
>> Copyright (c) 1993-2005 by Florian Klaempfl
>> test.pp(14,7) Error: Illegal expression
>> test.pp(14,7) Fatal: Syntax error, ";" expected but "identifier
>> MINIMIZEALL" found
>> Error: X:\FPC\Bin\i386-win32\ppc386.exe returned an error exitcode
>> (normal if you did not specifiy a source file to be compiled)
>>
>> What's going on? Anybody can help? do I have to compile the compiler
>> with some extra settings to make Variants work as late-binding
>> variables? I've got a little dead-line here and I have to make a
>> decition if I take the delphi compiler or fpc and if I don't get this to
>> work I'll have to take delphi and that's something I really don't want.
>> Huston, please advice!
>
> Don't expect that dispatch interface in fpc work within the next week
> except if somebody pops up suddenly with a patch ;)
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Matthias (matthias at hryniszak.de)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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