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reply Gregor Kopp <gk cutcopy.com> writes:
Hi guys !

I'm fresh to D and really happy about the easy syntax compared to C++.
I would like to do automation with winword on my job here.

First of all, a little Ruby code, so that you can see what I mean:

Code starts here:

require "win32ole"


 word.documents.add(File.expand_path("myownfiletemplate.dot"))

 word.Visible = 1

 word.selection.find.text = "Text to Search"
 word.selection.find.execute


 word.selection.typetext "Replaced by this Text"

Code ends here



Das a similiar lib (like this win32ole lib from ruby) exist for the D 
language? I also tried to work with dfl it does have a module named 
dfl.wincom, but there is no usable documentation about it, and I really 
don't know if its the right module.

Greets, Gregor
Nov 14 2006
next sibling parent reply BLS <Killing_Zoe web.de> writes:
Hi Gregor,
Have a look at the dmd samples directory. dclient.d
As far as I can see your ruby sample is a typical late binding scenario.
D can do more, or, in other words  D can do what C++ can do, but in a 
readable way. Have a look at the JUNO tool chain at dsource.org ... 
projects JUNO.
Björn // btw : dsource is not avail. at the moment.


Gregor Kopp schrieb:

 Hi guys !
 
 I'm fresh to D and really happy about the easy syntax compared to C++.
 I would like to do automation with winword on my job here.
 
 First of all, a little Ruby code, so that you can see what I mean:
 
 Code starts here:
 
 require "win32ole"


  word.documents.add(File.expand_path("myownfiletemplate.dot"))

  word.Visible = 1

  word.selection.find.text = "Text to Search"
  word.selection.find.execute


  word.selection.typetext "Replaced by this Text"
 
 Code ends here
 
 
 
 Das a similiar lib (like this win32ole lib from ruby) exist for the D 
 language? I also tried to work with dfl it does have a module named 
 dfl.wincom, but there is no usable documentation about it, and I really 
 don't know if its the right module.
 
 Greets, Gregor
Nov 14 2006
parent reply "JohnC" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> writes:
"BLS" <Killing_Zoe web.de> wrote in message 
news:ejd1g9$2g0c$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 Hi Gregor,
 Have a look at the dmd samples directory. dclient.d
 As far as I can see your ruby sample is a typical late binding scenario.
 D can do more, or, in other words  D can do what C++ can do, but in a 
 readable way. Have a look at the JUNO tool chain at dsource.org ... 
 projects JUNO.
 Björn // btw : dsource is not avail. at the moment.


 Gregor Kopp schrieb:

 Hi guys !

 I'm fresh to D and really happy about the easy syntax compared to C++.
 I would like to do automation with winword on my job here.

 First of all, a little Ruby code, so that you can see what I mean:

 Code starts here:

 require "win32ole"


  word.documents.add(File.expand_path("myownfiletemplate.dot"))

  word.Visible = 1

  word.selection.find.text = "Text to Search"
  word.selection.find.execute


  word.selection.typetext "Replaced by this Text"

 Code ends here



 Das a similiar lib (like this win32ole lib from ruby) exist for the D 
 language? I also tried to work with dfl it does have a module named 
 dfl.wincom, but there is no usable documentation about it, and I really 
 don't know if its the right module.

 Greets, Gregor




You're better off using early binding than late binding. It's faster and a 
lot easier to use. You'll first need to translate the msword.olb type 
library to a D module. Tlbimpd should help you with that (look for Juno on 
DSource). Or use OleView and do it by hand.
Nov 14 2006
parent reply Gregor Kopp <gk cutcopy.com> writes:
Hm. I played around with it now for several hours. With Tlbimpd I always 
get an access violation, i dont know why. But I must say, that I don't 
know if I did it the right way. I seems that ive always the poor stupid 
guy who does always wants to learn something about new technologies and 
always gets undocumented pieces of software :(
Its really annoying.

I thought about using OleView and do it by hand about 2 seconds ;)
Im a Noob about such things, I think I need 3-4 years of experience 
before I know what I'm doing with that *g*

Anyway, enough mimimimi...

Can anyone tell me what I could do to reach my goal? I would be really 
be sad if i have to drop my interest on D because the lack of my 
knowledge about windows programming.

But maybe Im just to dump to use Tlbimpd :/
I don't know...



JohnC schrieb:


 
 
 You're better off using early binding than late binding. It's faster and a 
 lot easier to use. You'll first need to translate the msword.olb type 
 library to a D module. Tlbimpd should help you with that (look for Juno on 
 DSource). Or use OleView and do it by hand.
Nov 15 2006
parent reply "JohnC" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> writes:
"Gregor Kopp" <gk cutcopy.com> wrote in message 
news:ejepvc$1h3m$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 Hm. I played around with it now for several hours. With Tlbimpd I always 
 get an access violation, i dont know why. But I must say, that I don't 
 know if I did it the right way. I seems that ive always the poor stupid 
 guy who does always wants to learn something about new technologies and 
 always gets undocumented pieces of software :(
 Its really annoying.


Sorry it's not documented. I'm readying a new release of my Juno library and 
related tools, and will provide documentation this time around. It should be 
done by late December.

For now, get the latest test version of tlbimpd from 
http://wwwpaperocean.org/d/tlbimpd.zip.  The /? switch on the command line 
explains the various options.

Tlbimpd attempts to generate a D source module from a COM type library. It 
doesn't work on every type library yet. And when it does work you might need 
to tweak the generated files to get them to compile.

I just ran this version of tlbimpd on msword.olb, and it generated word.d 
without any errors. Here's what you need to do to get Word automation 
working:

1) Run tlbimpd (the latest version from the above link) on msword.olb, 
mso.dll and vbe6ext.olb.
I had to search my system for vbe6ext.olb. It was buried in a CAB file - if 
that's the same for you, copy it to another location before using tlbimpd on 
it.

2) Download http://www.paperocean.org/d/comtest.zip and use the com module 
from there instead of the one from Juno.

3) Import the resulting "office" and "vbide" modules into word.d, like this:

    private import com, office, vbide;

Import the "office" module into vbide.d.

4) office.d requires IPictureDisp, which isn't defined in the included com 
module (I'll add it in the next release) so add the following lines to the 
bottom of the "com" module:

    interface IPictureDisp : IDispatch {
        static GUID IID = { 0x7BF80981, 0xBF32, 0x101A, 0x8B, 0xBB, 0x00, 
0xAA, 0x00, 0x30, 0x0C, 0xAB };
    }

5) Try to compile everything, using DMD. You'll get a few errors saying 
something like "Range is used as a type". This means that Range is defined 
as a type but is also the name of a function, and they clash. So just go 
through them in turn and prefix the function names where the errors occur 
with "get_". For example change the function named Range to get_Range.

After following these steps, it should all compile.

I know I said it was easier to use early binding rather than late binding, 
and while this may make you think otherwise, it'll save you a lot of work in 
the long run.


 I thought about using OleView and do it by hand about 2 seconds ;)
 Im a Noob about such things, I think I need 3-4 years of experience before 
 I know what I'm doing with that *g*

 Anyway, enough mimimimi...

 Can anyone tell me what I could do to reach my goal? I would be really be 
 sad if i have to drop my interest on D because the lack of my knowledge 
 about windows programming.

 But maybe Im just to dump to use Tlbimpd :/
 I don't know...


If you follow the guidance above, you shouldn't need to drop either.
Nov 15 2006
next sibling parent reply Gregor Kopp <gk cutcopy.com> writes:
Hi JohnC,

thank you very very much for your time and helping.
I downloaded your new version of Tlbimpd, found the 3 named files and 
now im stucking again with Tlbimpd (step 1).

But i don not know what I can do. I tried tlbimpd with the options, 
without the options, with full path in \ and / notation, a always get 
the Access Violation on all 3 files. I too tried, just to find out how, 
to generate it with the sqlite3.dll to see if it is tlbimpd, or me but 
here tlbimpd says, that he cannot open the dll file. Could it be, that 
tlbimpd don't do the job on a Windows 2000?

tlbimpd.exe is stored in my c:/dmd/bin directory wich is in my PATH 
Variable, if that helps.

Whatever i try to do with it, here is an example output:

C:\Documents and Settings\gk>f:

F:\>cd \dfiles\mswordolb

F:\dfiles\mswordolb>dir
  Volume in drive F is Daten
  Volume Serial Number is 6833-CBCE

  Directory of F:\dfiles\mswordolb

11/15/2006  02:13p      <DIR>          .
11/15/2006  02:13p      <DIR>          ..
09/01/2006  03:02p           9,816,840 MSO.DLL
02/19/2001  08:12p             626,688 MSWORD.OLB
01/22/2001  06:39p              45,056 VBE6EXT.OLB
                3 File(s)     10,488,584 bytes
                2 Dir(s)     928,391,168 bytes free

F:\dfiles\mswordolb>tlbimpd /?
Type Library to D Module Converter 1.0

Syntax: tlbimpd TypeLibName [Options]
Options:
     /comments             Adds documentation as comments
     /noblanks             Omits blank lines between members
     /noenums              Prevents generating named enums
     /nologo               Omits display of logo
     /silent               Suppresses all output except errors
     /tabs                 Indents new lines with tabs instead of spaces
     /indent:indentCount   Indents new lines with the specified number 
of spaces
     /braces:newLine       Places braces on a new line
     /module:moduleName    Name of module to be produced
     /out:fileName         File name of module to be produced
     /propget:prefix       Prefix to use for property getters
     /propput:prefix       Prefix to use for property setters
     /unnamed:value        Value for unnamed parameters
     /order:verbatim       Generate types in original order
     /? or /help           Displays this usage message


F:\dfiles\mswordolb>tlbimpd MSWORD.OLB /module:msword /out:msword.d
Type Library to D Module Converter 1.0

Access Violation


F:\dfiles\mswordolb>


JohnC schrieb:

 "Gregor Kopp" <gk cutcopy.com> wrote in message 
 news:ejepvc$1h3m$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 

Hm. I played around with it now for several hours. With Tlbimpd I always 
get an access violation, i dont know why. But I must say, that I don't 
know if I did it the right way. I seems that ive always the poor stupid 
guy who does always wants to learn something about new technologies and 
always gets undocumented pieces of software :(
Its really annoying.


 
 
 Sorry it's not documented. I'm readying a new release of my Juno library and 
 related tools, and will provide documentation this time around. It should be 
 done by late December.
 
 For now, get the latest test version of tlbimpd from 
 http://wwwpaperocean.org/d/tlbimpd.zip.  The /? switch on the command line 
 explains the various options.
 
 Tlbimpd attempts to generate a D source module from a COM type library. It 
 doesn't work on every type library yet. And when it does work you might need 
 to tweak the generated files to get them to compile.
 
 I just ran this version of tlbimpd on msword.olb, and it generated word.d 
 without any errors. Here's what you need to do to get Word automation 
 working:
 
 1) Run tlbimpd (the latest version from the above link) on msword.olb, 
 mso.dll and vbe6ext.olb.
 I had to search my system for vbe6ext.olb. It was buried in a CAB file - if 
 that's the same for you, copy it to another location before using tlbimpd on 
 it.
 
 2) Download http://www.paperocean.org/d/comtest.zip and use the com module 
 from there instead of the one from Juno.
 
 3) Import the resulting "office" and "vbide" modules into word.d, like this:
 
     private import com, office, vbide;
 
 Import the "office" module into vbide.d.
 
 4) office.d requires IPictureDisp, which isn't defined in the included com 
 module (I'll add it in the next release) so add the following lines to the 
 bottom of the "com" module:
 
     interface IPictureDisp : IDispatch {
         static GUID IID = { 0x7BF80981, 0xBF32, 0x101A, 0x8B, 0xBB, 0x00, 
 0xAA, 0x00, 0x30, 0x0C, 0xAB };
     }
 
 5) Try to compile everything, using DMD. You'll get a few errors saying 
 something like "Range is used as a type". This means that Range is defined 
 as a type but is also the name of a function, and they clash. So just go 
 through them in turn and prefix the function names where the errors occur 
 with "get_". For example change the function named Range to get_Range.
 
 After following these steps, it should all compile.
 
 I know I said it was easier to use early binding rather than late binding, 
 and while this may make you think otherwise, it'll save you a lot of work in 
 the long run.
 
 

I thought about using OleView and do it by hand about 2 seconds ;)
Im a Noob about such things, I think I need 3-4 years of experience before 
I know what I'm doing with that *g*

Anyway, enough mimimimi...

Can anyone tell me what I could do to reach my goal? I would be really be 
sad if i have to drop my interest on D because the lack of my knowledge 
about windows programming.

But maybe Im just to dump to use Tlbimpd :/
I don't know...


 
 
 If you follow the guidance above, you shouldn't need to drop either.
Nov 15 2006
next sibling parent Gregor Kopp <gk cutcopy.com> writes:
I went to another computer with Windows XP, and there it generated the d 
files! It seems, that its really a Windows2000 or Windows XP issue! And 
i thought im a jerky jerk *hrhr*
I keep you informed about my future experience about it.


Gregor Kopp schrieb:

 Hi JohnC,
 
 thank you very very much for your time and helping.
 I downloaded your new version of Tlbimpd, found the 3 named files and 
 now im stucking again with Tlbimpd (step 1).
 
 But i don not know what I can do. I tried tlbimpd with the options, 
 without the options, with full path in \ and / notation, a always get 
 the Access Violation on all 3 files. I too tried, just to find out how, 
 to generate it with the sqlite3.dll to see if it is tlbimpd, or me but 
 here tlbimpd says, that he cannot open the dll file. Could it be, that 
 tlbimpd don't do the job on a Windows 2000?
 
 tlbimpd.exe is stored in my c:/dmd/bin directory wich is in my PATH 
 Variable, if that helps.
 
 Whatever i try to do with it, here is an example output:
 
 C:\Documents and Settings\gk>f:
 
 F:\>cd \dfiles\mswordolb
 
 F:\dfiles\mswordolb>dir
  Volume in drive F is Daten
  Volume Serial Number is 6833-CBCE
 
  Directory of F:\dfiles\mswordolb
 
 11/15/2006  02:13p      <DIR>          .
 11/15/2006  02:13p      <DIR>          ..
 09/01/2006  03:02p           9,816,840 MSO.DLL
 02/19/2001  08:12p             626,688 MSWORD.OLB
 01/22/2001  06:39p              45,056 VBE6EXT.OLB
                3 File(s)     10,488,584 bytes
                2 Dir(s)     928,391,168 bytes free
 
 F:\dfiles\mswordolb>tlbimpd /?
 Type Library to D Module Converter 1.0
 
 Syntax: tlbimpd TypeLibName [Options]
 Options:
     /comments             Adds documentation as comments
     /noblanks             Omits blank lines between members
     /noenums              Prevents generating named enums
     /nologo               Omits display of logo
     /silent               Suppresses all output except errors
     /tabs                 Indents new lines with tabs instead of spaces
     /indent:indentCount   Indents new lines with the specified number of 
 spaces
     /braces:newLine       Places braces on a new line
     /module:moduleName    Name of module to be produced
     /out:fileName         File name of module to be produced
     /propget:prefix       Prefix to use for property getters
     /propput:prefix       Prefix to use for property setters
     /unnamed:value        Value for unnamed parameters
     /order:verbatim       Generate types in original order
     /? or /help           Displays this usage message
 
 
 F:\dfiles\mswordolb>tlbimpd MSWORD.OLB /module:msword /out:msword.d
 Type Library to D Module Converter 1.0
 
 Access Violation
 
 
 F:\dfiles\mswordolb>
 
 
 JohnC schrieb:
 

 "Gregor Kopp" <gk cutcopy.com> wrote in message 
 news:ejepvc$1h3m$1 digitaldaemon.com...


 Hm. I played around with it now for several hours. With Tlbimpd I 
 always get an access violation, i dont know why. But I must say, that 
 I don't know if I did it the right way. I seems that ive always the 
 poor stupid guy who does always wants to learn something about new 
 technologies and always gets undocumented pieces of software :(
 Its really annoying.




 Sorry it's not documented. I'm readying a new release of my Juno 
 library and related tools, and will provide documentation this time 
 around. It should be done by late December.

 For now, get the latest test version of tlbimpd from 
 http://wwwpaperocean.org/d/tlbimpd.zip.  The /? switch on the command 
 line explains the various options.

 Tlbimpd attempts to generate a D source module from a COM type 
 library. It doesn't work on every type library yet. And when it does 
 work you might need to tweak the generated files to get them to compile.

 I just ran this version of tlbimpd on msword.olb, and it generated 
 word.d without any errors. Here's what you need to do to get Word 
 automation working:

 1) Run tlbimpd (the latest version from the above link) on msword.olb, 
 mso.dll and vbe6ext.olb.
 I had to search my system for vbe6ext.olb. It was buried in a CAB file 
 - if that's the same for you, copy it to another location before using 
 tlbimpd on it.

 2) Download http://www.paperocean.org/d/comtest.zip and use the com 
 module from there instead of the one from Juno.

 3) Import the resulting "office" and "vbide" modules into word.d, like 
 this:

     private import com, office, vbide;

 Import the "office" module into vbide.d.

 4) office.d requires IPictureDisp, which isn't defined in the included 
 com module (I'll add it in the next release) so add the following 
 lines to the bottom of the "com" module:

     interface IPictureDisp : IDispatch {
         static GUID IID = { 0x7BF80981, 0xBF32, 0x101A, 0x8B, 0xBB, 
 0x00, 0xAA, 0x00, 0x30, 0x0C, 0xAB };
     }

 5) Try to compile everything, using DMD. You'll get a few errors 
 saying something like "Range is used as a type". This means that Range 
 is defined as a type but is also the name of a function, and they 
 clash. So just go through them in turn and prefix the function names 
 where the errors occur with "get_". For example change the function 
 named Range to get_Range.

 After following these steps, it should all compile.

 I know I said it was easier to use early binding rather than late 
 binding, and while this may make you think otherwise, it'll save you a 
 lot of work in the long run.



 I thought about using OleView and do it by hand about 2 seconds ;)
 Im a Noob about such things, I think I need 3-4 years of experience 
 before I know what I'm doing with that *g*

 Anyway, enough mimimimi...

 Can anyone tell me what I could do to reach my goal? I would be 
 really be sad if i have to drop my interest on D because the lack of 
 my knowledge about windows programming.

 But maybe Im just to dump to use Tlbimpd :/
 I don't know...




 If you follow the guidance above, you shouldn't need to drop either.
Nov 15 2006
prev sibling parent "JohnC" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> writes:
"Gregor Kopp" <gk cutcopy.com> wrote in message 
news:ejf52t$1t2q$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 Hi JohnC,

 thank you very very much for your time and helping.
 I downloaded your new version of Tlbimpd, found the 3 named files and now 
 im stucking again with Tlbimpd (step 1).

 But i don not know what I can do. I tried tlbimpd with the options, 
 without the options, with full path in \ and / notation, a always get the 
 Access Violation on all 3 files. I too tried, just to find out how, to 
 generate it with the sqlite3.dll to see if it is tlbimpd, or me but here 
 tlbimpd says, that he cannot open the dll file. Could it be, that tlbimpd 
 don't do the job on a Windows 2000?


sqlite3.dll doesn't contain a COM type library! Try something like 
msxml4.dll instead.

I have no way of testing on operating systems other than XP, but I don't 
think there's anything in the program that would prevent it from working on 
Windows 2000. Just tried it on each of my XP machines in Windows 2000 
compatibility mode, and it worked fine.

See my further comments below...


 tlbimpd.exe is stored in my c:/dmd/bin directory wich is in my PATH 
 Variable, if that helps.

 Whatever i try to do with it, here is an example output:

 C:\Documents and Settings\gk>f:

 F:\>cd \dfiles\mswordolb

 F:\dfiles\mswordolb>dir
  Volume in drive F is Daten
  Volume Serial Number is 6833-CBCE

  Directory of F:\dfiles\mswordolb

 11/15/2006  02:13p      <DIR>          .
 11/15/2006  02:13p      <DIR>          ..
 09/01/2006  03:02p           9,816,840 MSO.DLL
 02/19/2001  08:12p             626,688 MSWORD.OLB
 01/22/2001  06:39p              45,056 VBE6EXT.OLB
                3 File(s)     10,488,584 bytes
                2 Dir(s)     928,391,168 bytes free

 F:\dfiles\mswordolb>tlbimpd /?
 Type Library to D Module Converter 1.0

 Syntax: tlbimpd TypeLibName [Options]
 Options:
     /comments             Adds documentation as comments
     /noblanks             Omits blank lines between members
     /noenums              Prevents generating named enums
     /nologo               Omits display of logo
     /silent               Suppresses all output except errors
     /tabs                 Indents new lines with tabs instead of spaces
     /indent:indentCount   Indents new lines with the specified number of 
 spaces
     /braces:newLine       Places braces on a new line
     /module:moduleName    Name of module to be produced
     /out:fileName         File name of module to be produced
     /propget:prefix       Prefix to use for property getters
     /propput:prefix       Prefix to use for property setters
     /unnamed:value        Value for unnamed parameters
     /order:verbatim       Generate types in original order
     /? or /help           Displays this usage message


 F:\dfiles\mswordolb>tlbimpd MSWORD.OLB /module:msword /out:msword.d
 Type Library to D Module Converter 1.0

 Access Violation


 F:\dfiles\mswordolb>


I don't think you're doing anything wrong. So it's running on Windows 2000, 
but there's clearly a bug in tlbimpd that's causing an access violation. 
Well, it is untested pre-beta software, so things will go wrong.

I've generated the word, office and vbide modules for you so that you can 
get started. Just add the IPictureDisp definition as described earlier, and 
you should be good to go. http://www.paperocean.org/d/mso.zip

Here's some code (untested and without error checking) that creates a Word 
object:

import com, office, word;

void main() {
    _Application application = 
Application.coCreate!(_Application)(CoClassContext.LocalServer);

    Documents documents;
    application.get_Documents(documents);

    VARIANT empty; // for empty arguments
    VARIANT templateName = VARIANT("template.dot");
    Document templateDoc;
    documents.Add(&templateName, &empty, &empty, templateDoc);
    templateName.clear();

    application.set_Visible(VARIANT_TRUE);

    Selection selection;
    application.get_Selection(selection);
    Find find;
    selection.get_Find(find);

    wchar* text = utf8ToBstr("find this text");
    find.set_Text(text);
    freeBstr(text);
    short dummy;
    find.Execute(&empty, &empty, &empty, &empty, &empty, &empty, &empty, 
&empty, &empty, &empty, &empty, &empty, &empty, &empty, &empty, dummy);

    // And so on...

    // release our COM objects.
    find.Release();
    selection.Release();
    templateDoc.Release();
    documents.Release();
    application.Release();
}


 JohnC schrieb:

 "Gregor Kopp" <gk cutcopy.com> wrote in message 
 news:ejepvc$1h3m$1 digitaldaemon.com...


Hm. I played around with it now for several hours. With Tlbimpd I always 
get an access violation, i dont know why. But I must say, that I don't 
know if I did it the right way. I seems that ive always the poor stupid 
guy who does always wants to learn something about new technologies and 
always gets undocumented pieces of software :(
Its really annoying.



 Sorry it's not documented. I'm readying a new release of my Juno library 
 and related tools, and will provide documentation this time around. It 
 should be done by late December.

 For now, get the latest test version of tlbimpd from 
 http://wwwpaperocean.org/d/tlbimpd.zip.  The /? switch on the command 
 line explains the various options.

 Tlbimpd attempts to generate a D source module from a COM type library. 
 It doesn't work on every type library yet. And when it does work you 
 might need to tweak the generated files to get them to compile.

 I just ran this version of tlbimpd on msword.olb, and it generated word.d 
 without any errors. Here's what you need to do to get Word automation 
 working:

 1) Run tlbimpd (the latest version from the above link) on msword.olb, 
 mso.dll and vbe6ext.olb.
 I had to search my system for vbe6ext.olb. It was buried in a CAB file - 
 if that's the same for you, copy it to another location before using 
 tlbimpd on it.

 2) Download http://www.paperocean.org/d/comtest.zip and use the com 
 module from there instead of the one from Juno.

 3) Import the resulting "office" and "vbide" modules into word.d, like 
 this:

     private import com, office, vbide;

 Import the "office" module into vbide.d.

 4) office.d requires IPictureDisp, which isn't defined in the included 
 com module (I'll add it in the next release) so add the following lines 
 to the bottom of the "com" module:

     interface IPictureDisp : IDispatch {
         static GUID IID = { 0x7BF80981, 0xBF32, 0x101A, 0x8B, 0xBB, 0x00, 
 0xAA, 0x00, 0x30, 0x0C, 0xAB };
     }

 5) Try to compile everything, using DMD. You'll get a few errors saying 
 something like "Range is used as a type". This means that Range is 
 defined as a type but is also the name of a function, and they clash. So 
 just go through them in turn and prefix the function names where the 
 errors occur with "get_". For example change the function named Range to 
 get_Range.

 After following these steps, it should all compile.

 I know I said it was easier to use early binding rather than late 
 binding, and while this may make you think otherwise, it'll save you a 
 lot of work in the long run.



I thought about using OleView and do it by hand about 2 seconds ;)
Im a Noob about such things, I think I need 3-4 years of experience 
before I know what I'm doing with that *g*

Anyway, enough mimimimi...

Can anyone tell me what I could do to reach my goal? I would be really be 
sad if i have to drop my interest on D because the lack of my knowledge 
about windows programming.

But maybe Im just to dump to use Tlbimpd :/
I don't know...



 If you follow the guidance above, you shouldn't need to drop either.
Nov 15 2006
prev sibling parent reply Gregor Kopp <gk cutcopy.com> writes:
I have only one last question (hope so).

I went now from 1 to 5, i got my files - i think all is correctly done.
If you have some sparetime, can you post me a really small example how 
to use the resulting files?
Maybe only start a Word, Insert "Hello World" and quit the program?

Thank you very much in advance, it would be a great help to avoid 
further headache *g*



JohnC schrieb:

 "Gregor Kopp" <gk cutcopy.com> wrote in message 
 news:ejepvc$1h3m$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 

Hm. I played around with it now for several hours. With Tlbimpd I always 
get an access violation, i dont know why. But I must say, that I don't 
know if I did it the right way. I seems that ive always the poor stupid 
guy who does always wants to learn something about new technologies and 
always gets undocumented pieces of software :(
Its really annoying.


 
 
 Sorry it's not documented. I'm readying a new release of my Juno library and 
 related tools, and will provide documentation this time around. It should be 
 done by late December.
 
 For now, get the latest test version of tlbimpd from 
 http://wwwpaperocean.org/d/tlbimpd.zip.  The /? switch on the command line 
 explains the various options.
 
 Tlbimpd attempts to generate a D source module from a COM type library. It 
 doesn't work on every type library yet. And when it does work you might need 
 to tweak the generated files to get them to compile.
 
 I just ran this version of tlbimpd on msword.olb, and it generated word.d 
 without any errors. Here's what you need to do to get Word automation 
 working:
 
 1) Run tlbimpd (the latest version from the above link) on msword.olb, 
 mso.dll and vbe6ext.olb.
 I had to search my system for vbe6ext.olb. It was buried in a CAB file - if 
 that's the same for you, copy it to another location before using tlbimpd on 
 it.
 
 2) Download http://www.paperocean.org/d/comtest.zip and use the com module 
 from there instead of the one from Juno.
 
 3) Import the resulting "office" and "vbide" modules into word.d, like this:
 
     private import com, office, vbide;
 
 Import the "office" module into vbide.d.
 
 4) office.d requires IPictureDisp, which isn't defined in the included com 
 module (I'll add it in the next release) so add the following lines to the 
 bottom of the "com" module:
 
     interface IPictureDisp : IDispatch {
         static GUID IID = { 0x7BF80981, 0xBF32, 0x101A, 0x8B, 0xBB, 0x00, 
 0xAA, 0x00, 0x30, 0x0C, 0xAB };
     }
 
 5) Try to compile everything, using DMD. You'll get a few errors saying 
 something like "Range is used as a type". This means that Range is defined 
 as a type but is also the name of a function, and they clash. So just go 
 through them in turn and prefix the function names where the errors occur 
 with "get_". For example change the function named Range to get_Range.
 
 After following these steps, it should all compile.
 
 I know I said it was easier to use early binding rather than late binding, 
 and while this may make you think otherwise, it'll save you a lot of work in 
 the long run.
 
 

I thought about using OleView and do it by hand about 2 seconds ;)
Im a Noob about such things, I think I need 3-4 years of experience before 
I know what I'm doing with that *g*

Anyway, enough mimimimi...

Can anyone tell me what I could do to reach my goal? I would be really be 
sad if i have to drop my interest on D because the lack of my knowledge 
about windows programming.

But maybe Im just to dump to use Tlbimpd :/
I don't know...


 
 
 If you follow the guidance above, you shouldn't need to drop either.
Nov 15 2006
next sibling parent "JohnC" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> writes:
"Gregor Kopp" <gk cutcopy.com> wrote in message 
news:ejf7nl$1vog$1 digitaldaemon.com...

I have only one last question (hope so).

 I went now from 1 to 5, i got my files - i think all is correctly done.
 If you have some sparetime, can you post me a really small example how to 
 use the resulting files?
 Maybe only start a Word, Insert "Hello World" and quit the program?

 Thank you very much in advance, it would be a great help to avoid further 
 headache *g*


See my response to your previous post for an example.
Nov 15 2006
prev sibling parent reply jcc7 <technocrat7 gmail.com> writes:
== Quote from Gregor Kopp (gk cutcopy.com)'s article

 I have only one last question (hope so).
 I went now from 1 to 5, i got my files - i think all is correctly done.
 If you have some sparetime, can you post me a really small example how
 to use the resulting files?
 Maybe only start a Word, Insert "Hello World" and quit the program?
 Thank you very much in advance, it would be a great help to avoid
 further headache *g*


I've gotten TLibImpD to create some files on Windows 2000/XP, but most of the
time
it fails with an "Access Violation". After editing the source code to
Juno/TLibImpD, I've been able to make some progress (such as at least getting
TLibImpD to generate mostly correct files that just need some hand-editing). But
I'm not sure that even that trick helps with the Word header file.

I've come up with a few usage tips:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/juno/wiki/TypeLibraryImporterTips

But that's just a start. There's a lot more that could be said about using
TLibImpD and Juno.

I could try to help getting you started with Word automation (not that I'm an
expert on the topic or anything), but it'd be helpful if you could e-mail the
header file that you've managed to create. I've only created and used headers
for
a few COM libraries such as ADODB, MSScriptControl, and Scripting.

By the way, which operating system did you finally manage to get TLibImpD to
work
on? WindowsME? Windows98?
Nov 15 2006
parent "JohnC" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> writes:
"jcc7" <technocrat7 gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ejfajs$22l3$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 I've gotten TLibImpD to create some files on Windows 2000/XP, but most of 
 the time
 it fails with an "Access Violation". After editing the source code to
 Juno/TLibImpD, I've been able to make some progress (such as at least 
 getting
 TLibImpD to generate mostly correct files that just need some 
 hand-editing). But
 I'm not sure that even that trick helps with the Word header file.

 I've come up with a few usage tips:
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/juno/wiki/TypeLibraryImporterTips


Thanks for doing that.
Nov 15 2006
prev sibling parent reply Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:
Gregor Kopp wrote:

 Hi guys !
 
 I'm fresh to D and really happy about the easy syntax compared to C++.
 I would like to do automation with winword on my job here.
 
 First of all, a little Ruby code, so that you can see what I mean:
 
 Code starts here:
 
 require "win32ole"


  word.documents.add(File.expand_path("myownfiletemplate.dot"))

  word.Visible = 1

  word.selection.find.text = "Text to Search"
  word.selection.find.execute


  word.selection.typetext "Replaced by this Text"
 
 Code ends here
 
 
 
 Das a similiar lib (like this win32ole lib from ruby) exist for the D 
 language? I also tried to work with dfl it does have a module named 
 dfl.wincom, but there is no usable documentation about it, and I really 
 don't know if its the right module.
 
 Greets, Gregor


Oh no, another Gregor!  Oh, the confusion that will ensue!

  - Gregor Richards
Nov 14 2006
parent Gregor Kopp <gk cutcopy.com> writes:
Thank you all for the tipps ;)

I'll take a look at JUNO, when dsource is online again. Tried the last 
days to reach that site. But I think it will be back again soon.

Hehe, youre not the only Gregor *g*
But nevermind, I know lot's of people which don't draw distinctions 
between Georg and Gregor and THAT is annoying for me. But only a little 
bit ;)

Sorry my english, it isn't my natural language and thank you for your 
friendly acceptance.


Gregor Richards schrieb:

 Gregor Kopp wrote:
 

 Hi guys !

 I'm fresh to D and really happy about the easy syntax compared to C++.
 I would like to do automation with winword on my job here.

 First of all, a little Ruby code, so that you can see what I mean:

 Code starts here:

 require "win32ole"


  word.documents.add(File.expand_path("myownfiletemplate.dot"))

  word.Visible = 1

  word.selection.find.text = "Text to Search"
  word.selection.find.execute


  word.selection.typetext "Replaced by this Text"

 Code ends here



 Das a similiar lib (like this win32ole lib from ruby) exist for the D 
 language? I also tried to work with dfl it does have a module named 
 dfl.wincom, but there is no usable documentation about it, and I 
 really don't know if its the right module.

 Greets, Gregor


 
 
 Oh no, another Gregor!  Oh, the confusion that will ensue!
 
  - Gregor Richards
Nov 15 2006