Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell to call Microsoft COM (Dispatch)

2006/1/31, Taral :

On 1/30/06, Gracjan Polak wrote:

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Is there any library to make Haskell call Microsoft COM functions using Dispatch? E.g I don't need the full COM binary functionality, scripting is enough. Google didn't seem to find anything interesting... beside rolling my own using FFI :)

A bit of searching turns up very little, but rolling your own for simple support is not difficult. OleInitialize, CoCreateInstance, class IUnknown, class IDispatch, class Variant...

Yes, I know. But I did not want to reinvent the wheel :) Besides, HDirect is large pile of outstanding work. Probably very much worth resurrecting. I'll think about this. Anyway automation bindings could be a bit of boost for Haskell popularity on Windows. -- Gracjan