Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Features
  • 1.2 Who Should Read What (or About the Manual)
  • Some information about samples
  
  
• 2. Tutorial
  • 2.1 Using The LuaCOM library
  • 2.2 Locating COM Objects
  • 2.3 Creating Objects
  • 2.4 Getting Help about an Object
  • 2.5 Methods and Properties
  • 2.6 Releasing Objects
  
  
• 3. LuaCOM Elements
  • 3.1 LuaCOM API
  • 3.2 LuaCOM objects
    • 3.2.1 Object Disposal
  • 3.3 Automation binding
    • 3.3.1 Implementing dispinterfaces in Lua
    • 3.3.2 Using Methods and Properties
    • 3.3.3 Connection Points: handling events
    • 3.3.4 Parameter Passing
    • 3.3.5 Exception Handling
  • 3.4 Type Conversion
    • 3.4.1 Boolean values
    • 3.4.2 Pointers to IDispatch and LuaCOM objects
    • 3.4.3 Pointers to IUnknown
    • 3.4.4 Arrays and Tables
    • 3.4.5 CURRENCY type
    • 3.4.6 DATE type
    • 3.4.7 Error Handling
  • 3.5 Other Objects
    • 3.5.1 The Enumerator Object
    • 3.5.2 The Connection Point Container Object
    • 3.5.3 The Typelib and Typeinfo Objects
  
  
• 4. Implementing COM objects in Lua
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Is it really useful?
  • 4.3 Terminology
  • 4.4 Building a LuaCOM COM server
    • 4.4.1 Specify the component
    • 4.4.2 Objects to be exported
    • 4.4.3 Building the type library
    • 4.4.4 Registration Information
    • 4.4.5 Registering the Component Object
    • 4.4.6 Implementing and Exposing the Component
    • 4.4.7 Initialization and Termination
  • 4.5 Running the COM server
  • 4.6 Generating Events
  
  
• 5. Release Information
  • 5.1 Limitations
  • 5.2 Known bugs
  • 5.3 Future Enhancements
  • 5.4 Important issues about LuaCOM
    • 5.4.1 Problems instantiating COM objects
    • 5.4.2 Releasing COM objects from memory
    • 5.4.3 Receiving events
    • 5.4.4 Extensible Interfaces
    • 5.4.5 Visual Basic© issue
  • 5.5 History
    • Version 1.2
    • Version 1.1
    • Version 1.0
    • Version 0.9.2
    • Version 0.9.1
  
  
• 6. Reference
  • 6.1 The C/C++ API
    • luacom_open
    • luacom_close
    • luacom_detectAutomation
    • luacom_IDispatch2LuaCOM
  • 6.2 The Lua Standard API
    • CreateObject
    • Connect
    • ImplInterface
    • ImplInterfaceFromTypelib
    • GetObject
    • NewObject
    • ExposeObject
    • RegisterObject
    • addConnection
    • releaseConnection
    • ProgIDfromCLSID
    • CLSIDfromProgID
    • ShowHelp
    • GetIUnknown
    • isMember
  • 6.3 Lua Extended API
    • pairs
    • GetType
    • CreateLocalObject
    • CreateInprocObject
    • LoadConstants
    • FillTypeInfo
    • FillTypeLib
  • 6.4 Enumerator Object
    • Methods
  • 6.5 Type Library Object
    • Methods
  • 6.6 Type Information Object
    • Methods
  
  
• 7. Credits
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