From: Masaki Suketa <masaki.suketa@...>
Date: 2002-08-08T19:21:03+09:00
Subject: Re: More questions on automation from naïve Windows user.

In message "More questions on automation from na�ve	Windows user."
    on 02/08/06, Chris Gehlker <gehlker@fastq.com> writes:

> 2) How does the scripter know what capabilities the target application has
> under Windows? The example on page 168 of the PickAxe Book assumes a lot of
> knowledge on the part of the scripter about Excel's internal objects. Mac
> Excel has an object browser so it's easy to see what objects are inside
> Excel and to discover their methods. Does the same thing apply on Windows? I
> don't have Win Excel but I do have IE and it's supposedly scriptable. I just
> can't discover the vocabulary to script it.

If you have the latest version of Win32OLE, then sample/olegen.rb might
help you. The olegen.rb read typelibs specified by argument, and create
some information.

  ruby olegen.rb 'Microsoft Internet Controls'

You can get all typelibs by WIN32OLE_TYPE.typelibs.

  require 'win32ole'
  WIN32OLE_TYPE.typelibs.each do |t|
    puts t
  end

  Regards,
  Masaki Suketa