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Subject: Re: Smalltalk and OLE controls
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 13:50:18 GMT
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In <246@manifold.win.net>, tmurphy@manifold.win.net (Thomas Murphy) writes:

Will OLE controls written in Digitalk Smalltalk require the giant run-time
DLLs that Digitalk Smalltalk applications require today?

[snip]

>>4. Is VisualWorks with DLL and C connect the best Smalltalk environment for 
>>using OLE controls?
>>
>
>I don't know about best, it gives you a reasonably quick
>way to wrapper the base api's but you would then be left to
>implement the structure on top of this and handle the
>vtables.
>No smalltalk vendor today has an OLE implementation for
>sale.  I know that Digitalk (my company), ParcPlace and
>Enfin all having working version though and plan to
>provide support.
>In my biased view, Digitalk will provide the strongest
>implementation.  We have very close ties to Microsoft and
>the OLE team and are working on a third generation version
>of support.  We've also been through much of the
>foundation in building support for SOM/DSOM which is
>shipping now.
>So, the real answer is you have to sit back and patiently
>wait.
>
>sorry,
>tom
> 
>

