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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:50:34 -0500
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From: Clinton Jeffery <jeffery@segfault.cs.utsa.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <353E1EF9.21F9@gte.net> (message from MJE on Wed, 22 Apr 1998
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Subject: Win32 API support for Icon
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> [Mark Evans made 3 interesting comments about Win32 API support for Icon]
> (2) Stop talking about DLL's! You don't want to use DLL's as such, but
> Component Object Model (COM) interfaces.
While I agree that adding a COM interface for Icon might be as important or
more important than a DLL interface, none of the articles I have read on it
have indicated that there was a COM object that encapsulates the Win32 API,
which is what the person that started this thread was asking for.
If anyone has a more specific pointer to information that shows that all
of the standard Windows API's (which are shipped as .DLL's) are available
via COM/OLE, I'd appreciate your sharing it. Otherwise I would assume Mark
is saying we need BOTH DLL and COM interfaces. Ya sure and ya betcha.
I believe Microsoft has made and continues to make Windows programming as
difficult as possible in order to acquire and retain their applications
monopoly. So we need ODBC, MAPI, ISAPI, and a couple dozen other API's
if we want Icon to be as good for Windows programming as MS compilers are.
This sounds like it calls for a commercial product effort.
Clint Jeffery, jeffery@cs.utsa.edu
Division of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Research http://www.cs.utsa.edu/research/plss.html