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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,120 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #30 on Thu 02 Sep 2010 10:25 PM (UTC)

Amended on Fri 03 Sep 2010 01:20 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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If you want to find more about the "type library" you can do this:


require "luacom"  -- built into MUSHclient
require "luacom5" -- supplied as luacom5.lua

-- grab raw type library
rawtlb = luacom.LoadTypeLibrary("itunes.Application")

assert (rawtlb, "Type library not found")

-- convert to table
tlb = luacomE.FillTypeLib(rawtlb)  
rawtlb = nil

require "tprint"
tprint (tlb)  --> 17,982 lines ouptput

Example of some of the output:


    71:
      "helpcontext"=0
      "type"="void"
      "description"="True if playback position is remembered."
      "prototype"="void RememberBookmark(VARIANT_BOOL p1)"
      "parameters":
        1:
          "in"=true
          "type"="VARIANT_BOOL"
          "name"="p1"
          "out"=false
          "opt"=false
      "name"="RememberBookmark"
      "num_params"=1
      "dispid"=1610874884
      "rawMethod":
        "helpcontext"=0
        "type"="void"
        "description"="True if playback position is remembered."
        "invkind"="propput"
        "memid"=1610874884
        "name"="RememberBookmark"
        "parameters"=table: 01A75228
        "ParamsOpt"=0
        "helpfile"=""
        "Params"=1
      "typeinv"="propput"

Or you can get a rather nifty HTML document like this:


require "luacom"  -- built into MUSHclient
require "luacom5" -- supplied as luacom5.lua

luacom.DumpTypeLib ("itunes.Application", "c:\\itunes_typelib.html")

(Lengthy file appears in the nominated location). Opening that with your web browser reveals stuff like this:

Quote:

Rewind

void Rewind()

Skip backwards in a playing track.

LuaCOM examples:

com_obj:Rewind()

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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Posted by FenceWalker USA (8 posts) Bio

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Reply #31 on Mon 11 Oct 2010 11:00 PM (UTC)

Amended on Mon 11 Oct 2010 11:34 PM (UTC) by FenceWalker

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Hello. MC looks to have come along nicely since the last time I used it. I have a question about COM objects in MC and was hoping I might get a little help with a couple of questions.

First I can get info from the program I have the object set up for, like the version of the program, printed to the screen of MC, so that part is ok. Some information that I am trying to view from the object however comes out like this:

table: 05E35C40

Can anyone offer some insight on where I need to go from here to turn that table reference into usable information?

Second I'm a bit confused about what ProgID or ClassID I need to use if I want to set up a COM object for MC to use with another program, if that is possible?

I'm a bit rusty with LUA in general, so try to keep that in mind and maybe dumb responses down a little if anyone has time to reply.

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Posted by Worstje Netherlands (899 posts) Bio

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Reply #32 on Tue 12 Oct 2010 12:47 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 12 Oct 2010 12:50 AM (UTC) by Worstje

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You'll want to look into Nick's tprint function. Basically, do this:

require "tprint"
tprint(table_of_interest)

Regarding the COM object server functionality.. I am not sure that is possible. I've tried something like that once while trying to abuse the MUSHclient world object, and that basically was a big world of 'let us crash MUSHclient' since MUSHclient is not made to have its own object used outside its own process. (Technically, one probably could consider it a bug, but I think very few people know how to fix it or even need it.)

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Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (23,120 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #33 on Tue 12 Oct 2010 01:48 AM (UTC)

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FenceWalker said:

Can anyone offer some insight on where I need to go from here to turn that table reference into usable information?

It might be easier to answer if you gave a specific example. COM can be obscure at the best of times. But if you say something like "I want to play song 3 in my iTunes list", or "I want to get data from Cell A13 in Excel" then that gives us something to get our teeth into.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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Posted by FenceWalker USA (8 posts) Bio

Date Reply #34 on Tue 12 Oct 2010 08:40 AM (UTC)

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Yeah I guess I was a bit non descriptive, sorry. Here is the full picture. I am trying to get the values of variables from within CMUD. *gasp* Hehe, specifically I would like to use MC and CMUD together. I have alot of scripts written in in zscript already, but there are plugins for MUSHclient that I would like to use aswell. My idea is if I could get MUSHclient to draw the info from the variables I have populated in CMUD directly I could have the best of both worlds. :)

I am using the folowing:

require("luacom")
require "tprint"
local data = 1

cmud = nil
cmuds = nil
var = nil

if data > 0 then
  cmud = luacom.CreateObject("cMUD.Application")
  cmuds = cmud.CurrentSession
  var = cmuds.getvar(test,"\test")
  data = 0
end

print(var)
tprint(var)

which spits out this:

table: 03E39D88
"_USERDATA_REF_"=userdata: 03E3B330

The variable test actually contains a string of:

This is a test

I would ideally like to have the actual contents of the test variable echoed to MUSHclient be it a string, string list or database variable.

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,120 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

Date Reply #35 on Wed 13 Oct 2010 08:30 PM (UTC)

Message

Sorry I was a bit slow to respond - got a bit distracted by the mapper.

The easiest thing might be to do what some others have done, and just get at the Access database which I believe Cmud uses. There was someone recently doing that to grab mapper information.

If that doesn't work, you could try looking at the saved data (I think Cmud uses XML?) which you might be able to parse reasonably simply.

Another thing to try would be to follow the example earlier up this page and try to get the HTML type library from the program, like this:


require "luacom"  -- built into MUSHclient
require "luacom5" -- supplied as luacom5.lua

luacom.DumpTypeLib ("cMUD.Application", "c:\\cmud_typelib.html")

I don't have a copy of cMUD so I can't try that, but you might find from that what your next step would be.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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Posted by FenceWalker USA (8 posts) Bio

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Reply #36 on Fri 15 Oct 2010 03:44 PM (UTC)

Amended on Fri 15 Oct 2010 04:30 PM (UTC) by FenceWalker

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Thanks for the help after a couple days of reading and experimentation. I managed to get it working. Adding the line

val = var.value

was needed to actually display what was contained in the variable.


require("luacom")
require("luacom5")

local data = 1

if data == 1 then
  cmud = luacom.CreateObject("cMUD.Application")
  cmuds = cmud.CurrentSession
  var = cmuds.getvar(MSDP,"MSDP")
  val = var.value
  end

print(val)

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Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (23,120 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #37 on Fri 15 Oct 2010 09:24 PM (UTC)

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Cool. Now you have a method of getting at all your data.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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