Re: How to benefit from [appobject] in a script?

From:

"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>

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microsoft.public.vc.atl

Date:

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:07:56 -0400

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"Boris" <boris@gtemail.net> wrote in message
news:op.tz6n6rxz45fww6@burk.mshome.net

I just stumbled upon the MIDL attribute [appobject] (see
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366726.aspx) and applied
it to one of the COM classes in a DLL (the documentation talks about
EXE but I guess it shouldn't be a problem to use it in a DLL?).
Anyway after adding [appobject] I wonder how the functions and
properties which should now be globally available can be used in a
scripting language. Can I tell WSH somehow that function X() is
provided by Y because Y is the app object (thus you don't need to
write Y.X() anymore in a script)?

I'm not sure WSH supports [appobject] (I know VB does). You could try it
and find out.

To have any hope of succeeding, you would need to prepare a package
file:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/20cxbyht.aspx

It should have a <reference> element referring to your type library (and
of course a <script> element containing your script).
--
With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik

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