Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> So... would it for example be possible to write some gizmo that 
>> enables you to insert a mathematical formula into a Word document 
>> without Word crashing? (Or an organisation chart, for that matter?)
> 
> Possible, yes. That's exactly one of the sorts of things it's good for.

So... when you double-click a "drawing" object in Word, and Word locks 
up for 40 seconds while it pages huge amounts of data back into RAM... 
that's Word loading the external plugin that handles drawing objects?

>> maybe be able to write macros in Haskell instead of VisualBasic? (You 
>> know how normally you can write a macro in VB and then use it as a 
>> normal function in cells of the spreadsheet? Well, what if you wanted 
>> to use Haskell instead? Is that possible, technically?)
> 
> I would expect so. It depends what Excel exposes.

Heh. Where do you find this kind of information?

(I guess it's kind of moot anyway. I don't have access to any 
programming language that supports COM. No, I classify VB as "joke" 
rather than "programming language"...)

>> When I develop things that have to talk to each other, I generally 
>> just use TCP. I have no idea what the overhead is though.
> 
> There's certainly the serialization overhead.

Depends on what you're sending. (If it's text anyway, that's not too 
bad. Or if you're just sending button presses...)

I know you probably don't care, but for a project I once make a small 
gizmo that allows you to talk a Smalltalk application and move it's GUI 
to another machine on the network. (But unlike, say, X11 or VNC, you're 
working at the model level rather than the bitmap level.)

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