ActiveX and COM on windows
lazarus / 10-Designer

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Arbiter · 2005-04-10 15:28

Is possible to use ActiveX and COM object on windows. Delphi 7
automatically creates a stub unit that wraps all methods contained in
the ActiveX control. I've tryed to recompile the generated unit under
lazarus (with fpc) to make a visual component but in FreePascal's FCL
or in lazarus LCL there aren't the following  units: OleCtrls and many
others starting with Ole*. (These units are all in the uses section of
the stub delphi generated unit).

Thanks all.

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Lightning · 2005-04-11 07:45

ActiveX support is minimal since it's not a crossplatform technology.

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Anonymous · 2005-04-12 12:20

I know. But i want to use this technology only on windows.

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Marc · 2005-04-13 09:47

Yes and that means that it has a very low priority for the devels to
implement.
Unless someone suplies patches for it ofcoarse

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Anonymous · 2005-11-18 15:44

Quote from: "Marc"Yes and that means that it has a very low priority
for the devels to implement.
Unless someone suplies patches for it ofcoarsealso, GIMP does not use
comctrls or activex, but gimp is not a problem for i. I prefer that
the development of lazarus focus on an cross plaform library for
controls, and perhaps be skinnable. If så, Lazarus can make skinnable
programs wich not delphi can do without expensive components required!
And skinnable support is only an dream now, but GTK Programs are
skinnable, why doesn't make Lazarus programs skinnable with GTK
because it already use GTK for graphics even on win32?