Component Object Model interface:

Component Object Model (COM) is a binary-interface standard for software components introduced by Microsoft (see Wikipedia)

• Component Object Model (COM) client interface: binary-interface standard for software components on Windows.

  • actxcontrollist : get list all available control services installed on current Windows.
  • actxserverlist : get list all available active X services installed on current Windows.
  • actxGetRunningServer : get COM handle of an existing COM server.

  • actxserver : creates a COM server.

  • COM_used : get list of COM handle currently used in current Nelson’s session.
  • iscom : determines if it is a COM handle.
  • overload on : class, delete, disp, fieldnames, get, set, invoke, ismethod, isprop, isvalid, methods.
  • add COM handle.
  • see examples in [modulepath(‘com_engine’), ‘/examples/’] directory.

• On Windows, Nelson can read/write all excel 97-2016 file formats (Excel required) based on COM:

  • COM_xlsread : read a xls/xlsx file.
  • COM_xlswrite : write a xls/xlsx file.
  • COM_xlsfinfo : get information about xls/xlsx file.

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