[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51470] OF-windows: COM objects do not accept method arguments

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #51470 (project octave):

something like:

>> app = actxserver ("Excel.Application")
app =
<COM object _Application (0x0x2a6aee28)>

>> methods (app)
error: methods: Invalid input argument
error: called from
    methods at line 63 column 5

>> com_invoke (app)
ans =
{
  [1,1] = ActivateMicrosoftApp
  [2,1] = AddChartAutoFormat
  [3,1] = AddCustomList
  [4,1] = AddRef
  [5,1] = Calculate
  [6,1] = CalculateFull
  [7,1] = CalculateFullRebuild
  [8,1] = CalculateUntilAsyncQueriesDone
  [9,1] = CentimetersToPoints
  [10,1] = CheckAbort
  [11,1] = CheckSpelling
  [12,1] = ConvertFormula
  [13,1] = DDEExecute
  [14,1] = DDEInitiate
:
  [70,1] = Save
  [71,1] = SaveWorkspace
  [72,1] = SendKeys
  [73,1] = SetDefaultChart
  [74,1] = SharePointVersion
  [75,1] = Support
  [76,1] = Undo
  [77,1] = Union
  [78,1] = Volatile
  [79,1] = Wait
  [80,1] = _Evaluate
  [81,1] = _FindFile
  [82,1] = _MacroOptions
  [83,1] = _Run2
  [84,1] = _WSFunction
  [85,1] = _Wait
}


I'm not so familiar with OOP; but anyway, what I think is that as methods(app)
doesn't work, maybe __COM__.cc can contain a function that overloads or
supplements the core Octave methods() function to also work on COM objects?


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