[Lazarus] OCX / ActiveX

[Marco van de Voort]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:12:49AM +0200, Robert wrote:
> is there any possibility to use an ActiveX component from Lazarus 
> on Windows - at least low level. Any HOW-TO / example?
> Its about a hardware driver which is only accessible through an 
> ActiveX DLL.

2.3.1 is able to start and instrument word or IE using dispatch interfaces.

See examples in winunits-base/examples.

I don't know the exact status of 2.2.4 in this regard. A lot of the windows
headers parts are merged, but I don't know how much of the
languag and objpas/variants units parts are merged.

For 2.2.4 I'd try to get the IDL description of the OCX, and then translate
it to FPC taking winunits-base units (like shlobj) as an template.

There are no FPC tutorials yet, but this is fairly close to how Delphi does
it, so general Delphi tutorials should be fine.