I have a non-squeak Smalltalk question. I hope the list
does not mind, but is likely to have experience I need to query.
Both VW and Dolphin have COM interop features. They both
seem to provide basic automation interop, and support for structured storage.
VW looks to go a bit more deeply in supporting data transfer for the clipboard
and such. If I need to copy data from a Smalltalk application and paste it
into an office application using linking and embedding is VW or Dolphin going
to work better for me? If all I am doing is clipboard copying which is
better? VW has a vaster VM and larger doc set, but the COM features appear to
be 3 years old. That may be OK since COM has not been changing much. Is VW or
Dolphin implementation more stable? Does one provide better interactive
debugging? Does the in-process case supported by Dolphin make that much of a
difference?
I have done COM programming in the past, but that was using MS
Java in the VW 2.5 days when it did not have COM connect.
Michael
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