Re: GNOME Summary, June 7-14

[Norman Stevens <norman arcady u-net com>]

On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Visual Basic hacker needed
> ===
> 
> Yep, you read that correctly. :-)
> 
> Miguel and I are reimplementing the Excel plot/chart feature using
> Gnumeric and Guppi. Excel comes with an interface browser, that lets
> you browse the Visual Basic interfaces for the various COM objects
> that make it up. We'd like to know what the chart component's
> interface is: methods, members, class hierarchy, and so
> on. Unfortunately, this interface is huge, and the interface browser
> has no print or cut-and-paste feature.
> 
> So I'm faced with sitting in front of a Windows box for hours, copying
> down the entire interface. I'm thinking that someone with a clue could
> write a little VB or Perl to suck the interface into a text file, then
> mail it to me. Any takers? You'd save me hours of work. :-) I'll buy
> you the beverage of your choice someday.
 
I'm not sure if this is what you want but if you add a com
object to a dialog in the Visual C++ environment it will
generate a c++ wrapper class for that object with all the
interface details.

Norman