Accessing COM Objects

[Incognito via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 19:11:59 UTC, John wrote:
> On Monday, 13 June 2016 at 17:38:41 UTC, Incognito wrote:
>> Cool. Oleview gives me the idl files. How to convert the idl 
>> files to d or possibly c?
>>
>> Would I just use them in place of IUnknown once I have the 
>> interface?
>
> In OleView you can save the IDL file, then run another tool, 
> midl.exe, on the IDL file. That will generate the C headers. 
> But you'd then have to translate that to D by hand.
>
> I have written a tool that takes a COM type library and 
> automatically converts it to a D source file. I could finish it 
> off over the next few days and put the source on GitHub if 
> you're interested.

That would be great! With it I might be able to put a nice 
wrapper around Photoshop for use with D. Others mind find it 
useful too as other programs still use COM.