What editors do you use for use with DLLs and COM?

[CoffeeChaton]

My guess is that, in Visual Studio or other IDEs, people edit in C/CPP/C-sharp with reliable autocomplete and hover features, and then translate it into AHK.
Could you provide a brief GIF to demonstrate how people typically use DLL/COM?
If possible, please also explain how to configure the editor/IDE for this.

Or do people simply Google search, then go to Microsoft's website to step-by-step copy the usable methods and functions, and directly write .ahk files?

[boiler]

I’m not sure what you’re asking. To connect to and interface with a COM object, there’s nothing to write in C or any other language. Just interface with the object per the Microsoft specs directly in AHK. Is that what you mean? Is below an example of what you were thinking might be written in C/C++/C# first before producing this AHK code?

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NumpadAdd:: {
	w := ComObjActive('Word.Application')
	if (SubStr(w.Selection.Range.Text, -1) = ' ')
		w.Selection.SetRange(w.Selection.Range.Start, w.Selection.Range.End - 1)
	w.Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex := 7 ; yellow
	w.Selection.Collapse(0)
}

Similarly for DLLs, are you asking about creating a DLL, or just calling a function in an existing DLL? If the latter, what is there to write in one of the other languages before writing the AHK call?

[CoffeeChaton]

What I mean is, in other languages ​​​​and corresponding IDEs, how to obtain completion/hover/ and other functions when using functions in DLL/COM.

I recently studied how to get a better DLL/COM editing experience in AHK v1/v2 or markdown, so I would like to refer to the operations of other IDEs.



data is from https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/blob/master/crates/targets/baseline/gdiplus.dll.c

[thqby]

For c/cpp, as long as #include corresponds to the header file, the editor can provide related completion and other functions.

For popular languages such as rust, the projection of the corresponding language can be generated through win32metadata.

[CoffeeChaton]

i will try it tks

[thqby]

https://github.com/ynkdir/winmd-printer/tree/main/win32

Here you can find metadata in json format.

[CoffeeChaton]

This is exactly what I want!