Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Juergen Lock Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:21:15 +0100 To: "Michael P." Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: ActiveX/OCX - programming Message-ID: <19991228222114.A87431@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <3866663D@webmail4.forum.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <3866663D@webmail4.forum.dk> Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Hmm no answer to this one? OK i'll have a try... On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 10:45:41AM +0100, Michael P. wrote: > Hi! > > I have a question about ActiveX/ocx programming. I have been using VB and VC++ > for creating ActiveX modules, but I normally use Cygwin and Mingw32 as my > favorite C++ environment, so now I would like to use it for developing ActiveX > controls as well. > If you used vc++ you probably used its gui builder, the mfc class library and its 'class wizard' (at least to create the externally visible methods and properties)... > Is it possible to develop and use ActiveX controls using Mingw32? And if yes, > how can it be done? ...and all of this you won't have with mingw32. (it may be _possible_ to port mfc but the copyright on the sources would probably restrict any port to people who already have vc++ anyway so there'd be little incentive to make one.) So i guess you'd have to resort to low level ole programming which looks like, umm, not fun. :( (oh, are there even ole headers for mingw32?) > Are there any tutorials out there? > There is information about ole and about how ocx's use it in msdn (a copy usually(?) comes with vc++, or go to http://msdn.microsoft.com), but i'm not sure if there's something what you could call a tutorial... HTH, (well, probably not really i'm afraid...) -- Juergen Lock (remove dot foo from address to reply) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com