clisp-ole

OLE bindings for CLisp
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      1 -*- Outline -*-
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      3 CLisp OLE Automation interface
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      5 Copyright (C) 2005 Tomas Hlavaty <kvietaag@seznam.cz>
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      7 This is Free Software, covered by the GNU GPL (v2)
      8 See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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     10 * Warning
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     12 This is experimental version that can seriously damage your computer.
     13 Be ready for blue screen and MS Windows recovery:-(
     14 
     15 * Introduction
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     17 This module provides rather incomplete and experimental interface to
     18 OLE Automation.
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     20 * Motivation
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     22 - Use CLisp for OLE Automation.
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     24 - Thank and contribute to GNU.
     25 
     26 - Learn more about Lisp.
     27 
     28 - Learn about OLE Automation.
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     30 * Platform
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     32 Developed on Cygwin, GNU CLISP 2.34, GNU C 3.4.4
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     34 * TODO
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     36 Important:
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     38 1) Add error handling.
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     40 2) Check for memory leaks and do resource management properly
     41    especially on errors!
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     43 3) Add other IDispatch methods.
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     45 4) Build more OLE classes and methods on top of the low level
     46    interface.
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     48 5) Replace RAW parameter of OLE:INVOKE by something like
     49    :default-idispatch-class?
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     51 Minor:
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     53 5) Use c-struct for variant type instead of c-pointer and
     54    getter/setter C functions.
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     56 6) wstring->string conversion: inverse function to with-foreign-string
     57    to replace WideCharToMultiByte() in bstr2lisp?