COM API: Anyone else messing with this yet?

Am I the only crazy one messing with this without any docs?

The Object Browser in Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express gives a good starting point. Logos appears to have used a clear design and naming, so its self-documents in part.

I copy and pasted the core stuff from the Object Browser into a Word document.

So far, I've got the events firing as I open, close or move within a resource panel. I get the resource title as it opens or closes. And location during moves.

I can search and list resources from my library, but the API only exposes 5 properties for each resource: id, type, title(2) and version. Not author or anything else about it.

So, nothing much yet thats going to change the world!!! [:)]

So far, it seems that Event PanelNavigated() gets fired way too often. Mostly the issue appears when selecting text within a resource. It fires with every mouse move, rather than at the end only.

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steve clark

Sounds like fun.

In the future i might create a new login so that i can install the beta while keep my gold release working.

Guessing that this would work with my VB5 version. Are there any ways to recognize selected text within a panel? Any way to open a panel in VB? Trying to figure what specific use that i could use when building a VB app.

JimTowler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/132666#Comment_132666

Hi Steve,

Yes - you could install the Beta into a different user account, assuming you have bandwidth and disk space to suit. Or wait for the next main release: Maybe 4-8 weeks guessing on the last round, but who knows what else might be included to impact the timelines.

You should be able to talk it the COM API from VB5, or using "scripting" etc. For simple tasks, you won't need a full fancy language. There is always the free Microsoft VB.NET 2010 Express etc. The price is right, and more than enough for the kinds of things I expect you would wish to do with the Logos COM API.

I've yet to see what I can do thats too hard any other way. Now we have some better URI features (in the 4.0d Beta 1), its easier to use simple links from a web page, or PowerPoint etc.

One thing I think I'll try, is a simple tracking system that can tell me about resource updates. Sadly, I could only know AFTER I have installed the update, but its a great excuse to make some code work.

So far, I've only got a few basic things working, so hard to speak to what might yet be possible. I'll say more in due course.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/132666#Comment_132666

Guessing that this would work with my VB5 version.

We haven't tested with VB5 (I don't even know if we could find a legal version of that anymore...) but any language that can act as a COM client (which I assume is anything after VB4) will be able to interact with the Logos 4 COM API.