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Release() is for garbage collection in COM. How is it in .NET?
BTW, although I've never confirmed it in an official source, I think only calling CoUninitialize() would be enough in most cases when exiting the script. I even suspect CoUninitialize() is neither necessary, just for a graceful exit.
All resources allocated by the process will be freed when the process is terminated anyway.

The cases it would cause memory leakage etc may be when the COM servers reside in other processes, like InternetExplorer and Excel. However, those COM objects usually have a method Quit which terminates the process it resides. So, call Quit() additionally for the remote COM server when it's no longer needed.

.NET does it automatically. There is a manual obj.Dispose() method however I think the host can often ignore such instructions for performance reasons.

Speaking of which I noticed that my COM routines are like 5-10 times slower than they should be. One reason for this could be because you use variable addresses and NumGet() numerous times when it would be more practical to cache them first instead. I know this may not seem important but when these few extra milliseconds add up to minutes it becomes a problem. Do you ever plan to optimize at least parts of your script? I'm willing to help if it's too much.

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I'm not so sure if I have to optimize the code. As I usually don't comment the script, I try to leave it at least follow-able. So, I adopt the long name as it is and/or keep the indirections like introducing new variables minimal etc. And, more importantly, I never felt the slow-down of the procedures myself, even with the current Invoke() function, which made me rather surprised. I didn't, and still not quite, like the Invoke() function as it requires too many indirections.

Anyway, looks like you're dealing with huge database or alike. If so, I'd rather code in VTBL interface than in DISPATCH interface.

BTW, how does .NET make a decision whether the object should be cleaned or not?

From the GC Class page on MSDN:Usually only objects that implement IDisposable have the Dispose() method. It is used to release unmanaged resources (this has to be explicitly coded into the class), and does not actually delete/garbage-collect the object.

The IDisposable Interface page on MSDN has a (kind of) explanation:(Also note the bit in bold; I guess garbage collection also happens at other unpredictable intervals.)

Dispose() is usually called by the finalizer (~Classname() in C# or Finalize() in VB), though iirc this is up to the programmer.

IMO, garbage collection is ilusional thing here.

You can't compare C#'s GC or any other with some ideas about that in AHK.

Furthermore, it would be very hard to design such GC taking into account poor AHK capabilities comparing to mainstreem langauges.

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I am trying to understand, and forgive me here
on the invoke function
what are the values possible for "sName"
or perhaps you can point me at a good source of documentation for a noob such as myself

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or restated the question is what are the functions that can be usedis ther a list a definitions somewhere

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something like this may help you see what's going on ..:

think of the OBJECT, PROPERTY, METHOD, etc.. invoked upon the referenced object/property/method pointer...

Take a look at some MS visual basic doc to get a feel of how that all works.


It is essentially the same as Java, so that doc would help explain as well...



or...


everything is an object,

and you can invoke an object's property, or perform a method upon the object, etc....

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im familiar with vis basic
the things im getting lost on are in some cases its been used with "execscript"
Never seen anything like that in vb
"Navigate" i understand
"execscript" well this is a void to me
such usage i have seen in ahklerners script

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ding dong call me an idiot i swear i had a bone head moment when i looked before i found that method now it was un familiar to me

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I'm not sure what that last post was supposed to mean, but if you just google "execScript", the very first link should take you to its documentation.

yea like i said i found it this time when i searched
sorry for the idiots confusion
i mean just look at the big idiot sign on my forhead

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How to translate these delphi-lines







Into AHK using CoHelper?

What your trying to do is use a mutimedia keyboard to control itunes when itunes is not the primary appliation in focus. Everything you want to know can be found here
http://www.everythingitunes.com/os/wind ... mmkeysdll/