[racket-dev] [racket] ActiveX support

At Sat, 1 Sep 2012 18:40:20 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > At Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:58:07 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> >> At Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:50:46 +0200, heraklea at gmx.de wrote:
> >> > I have an ocx-control and I would like to use it from Racket.
> >> >
> >> > Is it possible to bind this control in any way to Racket/Scheme?
> >>
> >> I think the way to do that is to use IE as an ActiveX container.
> >>
> >> Below is an example that starts the "MSCAL.Calendar" control. As you
> >> can see, I didn't figure out how to tell IE that it should trust the
> >> control (so there's an 8-second pause while I click to allow in IE),
> >> but maybe this will be enough to give you some ideas.
> >
> > Here's an improved example, but it depends on improvements and repairs
> > in the latest `ffi/com' implementation in the git repo. The changes
> > support calling the `write' method of an IE document and correctly
> > reference-counting objects that are received as event arguments. It
> > uses the "Sysmon" control that is included with Windows (I think), and
> > it avoids creating a temporary file.
> 
> If this avoids constructing a temporary file, could we use it on
> Windows for the documentation search?

The example starts IE specifically, as opposed to the user's default
browser, so I don't think it can be an immediate replacement for the
current browser launch.