1.1 Features

Currently, the LuaCOM library supports the following features:

• dynamic instantiation of COM objects registered in the system registry, via the CreateObject method;
• dynamic access to running COM objects via GetObject;
• COM method calls as normal Lua function calls and property accesses as normal table field accesses;
• ability to read type libraries and to generate HTML documentation on-the-fly for COM objects;
• use of COM objects without type information;
• type conversion between OLE Automation types and Lua types;
• object disposal using Lua garbage collection mechanism;
• implementation of COM interfaces and objects using Lua tables;
• implementation of OLE controls using Lua tables (needs a Lua GUI toolkit that can create in-place windows, like IUP);
• use of COM connection point mechanism for bidirectional communication and event handling;
• fully compatible with Lua 5 and with Lua 4;
• log mechanism to ease the debugging of applications.