The Component Categories Manager
John K. Hohm
jhohm at acm.org
Mon May 6 16:26:32 CDT 2002
I have been playing with getting a large application made with VB6 and using
many third-party ActiveX controls to work with Wine. I am currently having a
problem with the absence of COMCAT.DLL and The Component Categories Manager
which is ostensibly implemented in it. In fact, Windows implements it in
OLE32.DLL; COMCAT.DLL has do-nothing stubs for the registration functions and
forwards DllGetClassObject to OLE32.DLL.
The MSDN documentation for The Component Categories Manager seems very
straightforward; it documents ICatRegister and ICatInformation, which I
believe I could implement. Since I've not contributed to Wine before, and
just recently joined the digested list, I want to check the following things:
* Is anyone else working on this at the moment?
* Is there a major technical reason this can't be done yet?
* Is there some other reason for me not to work on this soon?
* How should the source for this new functionality be organized?
* Is there a standard (or exemplary) way to implement IEnumXXXX? I'll be
needing IEnumCATID, IEnumCLSID, and IEnumCATEGORYINFO.
* What should I do when I think I have working code?
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