Re: Perl 2 activex?

My first response is why?.

Sorry if I am being dramatic it's just that I used to do some ActiveX programming and it really was a pain. You could do it reasonably well using visual C++ and ATL if you needed to be small and were targeting IE users or you could even use Visual Basic if you didn't mind shipping the huge supporting DLLs...

The real question is what do you want need to do with your ActiveX control that requires Perl? The reason I say this is that the chances are that you are trying to solve a problem that is either better accomplished using something else or can be solved in another way using perl.

inman

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Re: Re: Perl 2 activex? by sweetblood (Prior) on Oct 16, 2003 at 20:04 UTC
Yeah that's the way I feel about it too, but I have to do something so simple in Perl(in fact I've done before) that would be a real pain in c++. Connect to a pop server and return info about the inbox. The final target requires either an activex or a com object. I'ts one of those things that is probably not worth investing a lot of time in.	[reply]