[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Using CLSIDFromProgID method

["Veronika Irvine" <veronika_irvine@xxxxxxx>]

Warning, in addition to this being a windows only function, anything in an internal package may change at any time without warning.  The class COM may not exist in future releases and the API may change.

 

The method COM.CLSIDFromProgID is just a JNI call to the dll method CLSIDFromProgID defined in the MSDN.

 

Here is an example of using it:

 

String progID = "Word.Document";

// create a GUID struct to hold the result

GUID guid = new GUID();

// create a null terminated array of char

char[] buffer = null;

if (progID != null) {

    int count = progID .length();

    buffer = new char[count + 1];

    progID.getChars(0, count, buffer, 0);

}

if (COM.CLSIDFromProgID(buffer, guid) != COM.S_OK){

    throw new InvalidArgumentException();

}

return guid;