[fpc-pascal] Question: OpenOffice and FPC?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tiziano - Mekar Srl - wrote:

>
> hi,
>
> Is here someone that knows if there is a way to take control of
> Opeoffice with FPC?
>
> Time ago I made something with Delphi and OpenOffice COM Bridge, it was
> an interesting and stimulating experience, mainly because OOffice is
> available on many platforms, but this is not true for Delphi and COM.
>
> Now that that the 2.0 release is shining, I am going to make some other
> things, but I would like to use FPC.
>
> I just know that "Dispatch interface support for variants is currently
> broken in the compiler" but since I would like to do it in a portable
> way, the COM bridge is not the right way.
>
> any ideas?

I once wrote an article about using OpenOffice 1.1 and Delphi.
There were only 2 ways to control it: using Java or COM. COM is
just a bridge to Java. Currently it seems that there are Java,
C++, COM and Python bindings. None of these are directly accessible
from FPC.

Michael.