Re: Interfacing ActiveX/COM-objects "natively" in Emacs

[Mathias Dahl]

> > Richard will have the definitive answer, but I don't think this
> > applies to standard components of the OS.
> 
> But how can you tell if an object is a standard component in the OS or
> not?  AFAIK anybody can make ActiveX/COM-objects.  Much like shared
> libraries on Unix.

This is something that I do know. Yes, "anyone" (well...) can create
their own ActiveX-components, Free or unfree, in at least a couple of
programming languages. I do that as part of my work. They usually end
up in OCX or DLL-files (these DLLs are a bit different from "normal"
DLLs though, often called COM-DLLs).

/Mathias