Windows - Embed Server et al.

[Noel Grandin]

OOh, I really hope you're planning on working on:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38808
That would make setting up windows build machines much easier.

I'm not an expert, but this is what I could find:

It looks like the ActiveX control was intended to allow embedding of LO 
inside InternetExplorer.
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/1.1/
http://help.libreoffice.org/3.3/Common/ActiveX_Control_to_Display_Documents_in_Internet_Explorer

OLE looks like it was primarily implemented to allow LO to be controlled 
from external programs:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Bridge/Automation_Bridge

ActiveX/OLE is not compiled into LO on platforms other than Windows.

On 2012-04-19 00:54, Mat M wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to decrypt some of the Windows bits of LO, namely OLE & 
> ActiveX parts.
>
> If I read correctly 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding, it says 
> that OLE is an interface, mainly used in Windows, but which could be 
> implemented everywhere.
> When doing Insert/Object/OLE Object in LibO, we can see all our 
> components here.
> IIUC, LibO uses it to incorporate data coming from LibO components in 
> another LibO component (same type or not). And it works under Windows 
> & under Linux, which is smart.
> So now, I have a full load of questions :)
> 1. Why the OLE components are not visible from other OLE-capable 
> Windows apps like Wordpad ? Is it only an internal implementation 
> which is only compatible to itself ?
> 2. When browsing the sources I found :
>  - extensions/source/ole :  what does it do ?
>  - extensions/source/activex : it should provide an activex of LibO. 
> The README.txt states we should have a so_activex.dll we need to 
> register but I don't find any dll in 3.5.2 which seems related to 
> that. Is it still delivered ?
> 3. I tried to detect components in my system:
>  - In DCOM config, I only see a LibreOffice Service Manager 1.0, which 
> is related to soffice.exe.
>  - From VC++2008Express, no .Net or COM component is detected. Is it 
> normal ?
> 4. extensions/source/ole, extensions/source/activex & embedserv all 
> require atl & mfc from Microsoft. How do you handle that under 
> non-Windows OSes ?
>
> Thanks in advance to the people who will answer :)
>
> Best regards
>

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