1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: wx/msw/ole/automtn.h
3 // Purpose: OLE automation utilities
4 // Author: Julian Smart
8 // Copyright: (c) 1998, Julian Smart
9 // Licence: wxWindows licence
10 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12 #ifndef _WX_AUTOMTN_H_
13 #define _WX_AUTOMTN_H_
17 #if wxUSE_OLE_AUTOMATION
19 #include "wx/object.h"
20 #include "wx/variant.h"
22 typedef void WXIDISPATCH
;
23 typedef unsigned short* WXBSTR
;
29 // Flags used with wxAutomationObject::GetInstance()
30 enum wxAutomationInstanceFlags
32 // Only use the existing instance, never create a new one.
33 wxAutomationInstance_UseExistingOnly
= 0,
35 // Create a new instance if there are no existing ones.
36 wxAutomationInstance_CreateIfNeeded
= 1,
38 // Do not log errors if we failed to get the existing instance because none
40 wxAutomationInstance_SilentIfNone
= 2
45 * Wraps up an IDispatch pointer and invocation; does variant conversion.
48 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxAutomationObject
: public wxObject
51 wxAutomationObject(WXIDISPATCH
* dispatchPtr
= NULL
);
52 virtual ~wxAutomationObject();
54 // Set/get dispatch pointer
55 void SetDispatchPtr(WXIDISPATCH
* dispatchPtr
) { m_dispatchPtr
= dispatchPtr
; }
56 WXIDISPATCH
* GetDispatchPtr() const { return m_dispatchPtr
; }
57 bool IsOk() const { return m_dispatchPtr
!= NULL
; }
59 // Get a dispatch pointer from the current object associated
60 // with a ProgID, such as "Excel.Application"
61 bool GetInstance(const wxString
& progId
,
62 int flags
= wxAutomationInstance_CreateIfNeeded
) const;
64 // Get a dispatch pointer from a new instance of the class
65 bool CreateInstance(const wxString
& progId
) const;
67 // Low-level invocation function. Pass either an array of variants,
68 // or an array of pointers to variants.
69 bool Invoke(const wxString
& member
, int action
,
70 wxVariant
& retValue
, int noArgs
, wxVariant args
[], const wxVariant
* ptrArgs
[] = 0) const;
72 // Invoke a member function
73 wxVariant
CallMethod(const wxString
& method
, int noArgs
, wxVariant args
[]);
74 wxVariant
CallMethodArray(const wxString
& method
, int noArgs
, const wxVariant
**args
);
76 // Convenience function
77 wxVariant
CallMethod(const wxString
& method
,
78 const wxVariant
& arg1
= wxNullVariant
, const wxVariant
& arg2
= wxNullVariant
,
79 const wxVariant
& arg3
= wxNullVariant
, const wxVariant
& arg4
= wxNullVariant
,
80 const wxVariant
& arg5
= wxNullVariant
, const wxVariant
& arg6
= wxNullVariant
);
83 wxVariant
GetProperty(const wxString
& property
, int noArgs
= 0, wxVariant args
[] = NULL
) const;
84 wxVariant
GetPropertyArray(const wxString
& property
, int noArgs
, const wxVariant
**args
) const;
85 wxVariant
GetProperty(const wxString
& property
,
86 const wxVariant
& arg1
, const wxVariant
& arg2
= wxNullVariant
,
87 const wxVariant
& arg3
= wxNullVariant
, const wxVariant
& arg4
= wxNullVariant
,
88 const wxVariant
& arg5
= wxNullVariant
, const wxVariant
& arg6
= wxNullVariant
);
90 bool PutPropertyArray(const wxString
& property
, int noArgs
, const wxVariant
**args
);
91 bool PutProperty(const wxString
& property
, int noArgs
, wxVariant args
[]) ;
92 bool PutProperty(const wxString
& property
,
93 const wxVariant
& arg1
, const wxVariant
& arg2
= wxNullVariant
,
94 const wxVariant
& arg3
= wxNullVariant
, const wxVariant
& arg4
= wxNullVariant
,
95 const wxVariant
& arg5
= wxNullVariant
, const wxVariant
& arg6
= wxNullVariant
);
97 // Uses DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET
98 // and returns a dispatch pointer. The calling code should call Release
99 // on the pointer, though this could be implicit by constructing an wxAutomationObject
100 // with it and letting the destructor call Release.
101 WXIDISPATCH
* GetDispatchProperty(const wxString
& property
, int noArgs
, wxVariant args
[]) const;
102 WXIDISPATCH
* GetDispatchProperty(const wxString
& property
, int noArgs
, const wxVariant
**args
) const;
104 // A way of initialising another wxAutomationObject with a dispatch object,
105 // without having to deal with nasty IDispatch pointers.
106 bool GetObject(wxAutomationObject
& obj
, const wxString
& property
, int noArgs
= 0, wxVariant args
[] = NULL
) const;
107 bool GetObject(wxAutomationObject
& obj
, const wxString
& property
, int noArgs
, const wxVariant
**args
) const;
110 WXIDISPATCH
* m_dispatchPtr
;
112 wxDECLARE_NO_COPY_CLASS(wxAutomationObject
);
115 #endif // wxUSE_OLE_AUTOMATION
117 #endif // _WX_AUTOMTN_H_