Re: calling COM /XPCOM/COM Bridge

Ian McDonald <[email protected]> Sun, 01 Dec 2002 21:30:19 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xpcom
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Bradley wrote:
> 
> Anthony_Barker wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > Is there any projects around that allow one to call COM objects from
> > Mozilla (js) or an XPCOM/COM bridge or something?
> 
> Currently there is code in CVS to access COM objects that implement the
> IDispatch interface. The code is currently turned off and is not part of
> any Mozilla build. It is also very green code and not thoroughly tested.
> 
> The environment variable XPC_IDISPATCH_SUPPORT turns on this support at
> build time.

Cool. How far is it from stability?

I am using 1.0.1 for stability, but this feature would probably be
terribly useful to my app. How much work would it take to patch it onto
1.0.1 source? 

Thanks,

Ian