Future plans

ToDo:
- try to inform Benjamin Maggi of the release
- make sure each converted demo has credit for Benjamin Maggi as original author
  - DONE IEpopup.r
- add a note about installation/over-installation: "install by unzipping to your desired directory"
- add a "requires External Library Access (tested on View/Pro 1.3.2)" message ?
- auto-generate function-lists documentation ?

- Maybe have a list of functions with examples from and references to corresponding pairs of C and Rebol demos ?
  - could possibly autogenerate list of dh functions used by each example in samples_c/
- These functions are interesting and may require notes to help people translate from C to rebol:
  - ado.c
	- ZeroMemory <---
	- dhFreeString
	- FOR_EACH <---
	- SUCCEEDED <---
  - dcom_alt_creds.c
	- dhCreateObjectEx
  - email.c
	- uses BSTR strings
  - MSHTML.c
	...
	
	- dhParseProperties

- research the different types of strings used.
  - BSTR
  - LPCWSTR
  - LPCOLESTR etc.

- naming:

	comlib		disphelper
	
	obj	 <->	pDisp          <---- will I keep pDisp or change it to obj on the rebol side ?

- put the routines in com2rebol.c/h into the same order as they appear in disphelper.c/h

- Fix these two issues of Brett Handley 14-Dec-2005 in "COM Supporting" group
	Issue 1 - CreateObject won't start Photoshop but does work with Microsoft products like Access, Excel, Word...

	>> obj_application: createObject "Photoshop.Application"
	--------------------------------------------------
	ERROR:
	--------------------------------------------------
	Member:   Photoshop.Application
	Function:     CreateObject
	Error In:     CreateObjectEx
	Error:    %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
	Code:     800700c1
	Source:   Application
	CODE: -2147024703
	--------------------------------------------------
	If I start PS by hand or use Call from REBOL then there is no problem. It is starting the process which is the issue.
	==================================================================================
	Issue 2 - Photoshop method PrintOut only works the first time, subsequent calls 
	are silently ignored.

	I had a loop so my workaround was to Quit photoshop programmatically, then 
	restart it with Call - bit of a sledgehammer but I generated my cards :)
	===============================
	Paul: Yes Brett - CreateProcess


- test and clean Ben's new demos in my distro
  - DONE IEPrint.r
  - DONE PopUPIE.r -> IEpopup.r
  - script.r
  - WMI.r
  - WMI_HOTFIXES.r

- remember each allocated object and release them all in reverse order on cleanup ?

- convert more C samples from DispHelper

- com2rebol.c
  - make it more "cross-compiler", 
    - define DLLIMPORT like FMOD does (for some code-shrinkage)
    - DevCpp's DLL code is not much different, so try to support Ben's compiler (see Ben's com2rebol.c)
      (maintaining compatibility across compilers)
      However, maybe it's easier to provide DevCPP/ and LCC/ folders with their own files
      for building the DLL.
      The difference is:

	DevCPP:

		BOOL APIENTRY DllMain (...)

	com2rebol.c:

		BOOL WINAPI __declspec(dllexport) LibMain(...)

- diagrams
  - DONE: COMLib-overview-diagram.r 
  - diagram showing COMLib API functions and routines (see list at bottom)
  - diagram showing com2rebol.dll API functions
  - diagram showing DispHelper API functions
  - diagram showing COM API functions

- Unicode support. Currently ANSI is converted automatically to Unicode by the com2rebol.c functions.
  Unicode support is compiled into disphelper by adding  #define UNICODE

- make-external-library-interface.r (on the DLL header file) ?
- Ben's object-like path syntax idea ?

- investigate this compiler warning:

	dllwrap.exe: no export definition file provided.
	Creating one, but that may not be what you want

- XP Connect: check out "David Bradley's excellent COM connect layer." as mentioned here:
  http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm#download
  Can be found in firefox source code, downloaded it from
	ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.4/source/firefox-1.5.0.4-source.tar.bz2
	http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xpcom/
  Looks like a larger and more complex system than Disphelper.

- Ben's experimental tcp client
  - Why is this useful for COMLib ?

- check out http://mortimer.devcave.net/projects/rebcall
  I have it in the cache: http://mypage.bluewin.ch/rhurni/files/RebCall-1.0.0.zip
  The license seems simple and very unrestrictive.
  - Why is this useful for COMLib ?

- Check for newer version http://disphelper.cvs.sourceforge.net/disphelper/
  eg. version 0.81 July 7, 2004  http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/disphelper/disphelper_081.zip