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1.1 Features

Currently, the LuaCOM library supports the following features:

• dynamic instantiation of COM objects registered in the system registry, via the CreateObject method;

• dynamic access to running COM objects via GetObject;

• COM method calls as normal Lua function calls and property accesses as normal table field accesses;

• ability to read type libraries and to generate HTML documentation on-the-fly for COM objects;

• use of COM objects without type information;

• type conversion between OLE Automation types and Lua types;

• object disposal using Lua garbage collection mechanism;

• implementation of COM interfaces and objects using Lua tables;

• use of COM connection point mechanism for bidirectional communication and event handling;

• fully compatible with Lua 5 and with Lua 4;

• log mechanism to ease the debugging of applications.

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Fabio Mascarenhas de Queiroz 2005-01-07