Load WIN32OLE class

[vgvgf]

I need to use this class, but the RGSS does not have it. So I try to load it from a .so file, but RMXP can't load these files.

My question is: How can I load .so files?
Or: Does an other way to load the win32ole class exists?

 

[Selwyn]

You can't load .so files.
I don't remember any way to load the Win32OLE library, I think I tried once but failed...

 

[Yeyinde]

You could include the actual Ruby files into your project dir and require them like so:

$: << "."
require 'Win32OLE'

 

[Selwyn]

Right, but it won't work.
RMXP just can't load .so files.
c. files either...

 

[Yeyinde]

The Ruby standard libary files are .rb files themselves, so you you CAN require them like that. just take a look:

English.rb              parsearg.rb
Env.rb                  parsedate.rb
README                  pathname.rb
abbrev.rb               ping.rb
base64.rb               pp.rb
benchmark.rb            prettyprint.rb
cgi                     profile.rb
cgi-lib.rb              profiler.rb
cgi.rb                  pstore.rb
complex.rb              racc
csv.rb                  rational.rb
date                    rdoc
date.rb                 readbytes.rb
date2.rb                resolv-replace.rb
debug.rb                resolv.rb
delegate.rb             rexml
drb                     rinda
drb.rb                  rss
e2mmap.rb               rss.rb
erb.rb                  rubyunit.rb
eregex.rb               runit
fileutils.rb            scanf.rb
finalize.rb             set.rb
find.rb                 shell
forwardable.rb          shell.rb
ftools.rb               shellwords.rb
generator.rb            singleton.rb
getoptlong.rb           soap
getopts.rb              sync.rb
gserver.rb              tempfile.rb
importenv.rb            test
ipaddr.rb               thread.rb
irb                     thwait.rb
irb.rb                  time.rb
jcode.rb                timeout.rb
logger.rb               tmpdir.rb
mailread.rb             tracer.rb
mathn.rb                tsort.rb
matrix.rb               un.rb
mkmf.rb                 uri
monitor.rb              uri.rb
mutex_m.rb              weakref.rb
net                     webrick
observer.rb             webrick.rb
open-uri.rb             wsdl
open3.rb                xmlrpc
optparse                xsd
optparse.rb             yaml
ostruct.rb              yaml.rb

 

[Selwyn]

I perfectly know that.

I'm just saying that you can't load Win32OLE.
I've already tried to do it a long time ago...

 

[vgvgf]

A require/load to win32ole can't be done, because there isn't a win32ole.rb file, or nothing in a .rb file that has the win32ole class.
Does a script for loading .so or .c files exist? I have search for it but I don't find anything.

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Right, but it won't work.
RMXP just can't load .so files.
c. files either...

I am guessing not.

 

[vgvgf]

I am guessing not.

Do you know how to load.so or.c files, SephirotSpawn?

 

[Yeyinde]

------------------------------------------------------------------ Kernel#require
require(string) => true or false
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ruby tries to load the library named string, returning true if successful. If the filename does not resolve to an absolute path, it will be searched for in the directories listed in $:. If the file has the extension ``.rb'', it is loaded as a source file; if the extension is ``.so'', ``.o'', or ``.dll'', or whatever the default shared library extension is on the current platform, Ruby loads the shared library as a Ruby extension. Otherwise, Ruby tries adding ``.rb'', ``.so'', and so on to the name. The name of the loaded feature is added to the array in $". A feature will not be loaded if it's name already appears in $". However, the file name is not converted to an absolute path, so that ``require 'a';require './a''' will load a.rb twice.

require "my-library.rb"
require "db-driver"

Good ol' fxri says Ruby knows how to load .so files, so try and load them.
EDIT: Download win32ole.so if you need it

 

[vgvgf]

I can't, I have tried a lot of things without any good result.
See this:
http://www.fileul.com/view.php?file=MBYmdoU1

 

[Yeyinde]

It appears that RMXP has a faulty, or out of date version of require(RMXP is running Ruby 1.8.1). Silly Microsoft Visual C++ runtime errors.
What, might I ask, are you going to do with Win32OLE?

 

[vgvgf]

I want to implement SAPI to rmxp, so the event messages(or other things) can be speaked by the program.

It is very simple, it need only two lines for work:

Speech = WIN32OLE.new("SAPI.SpVoice")
Speech.Speak("The computer will talk...")

 

[vgvgf]

Bumping.

 

[Selwyn]

Oh, god.
Can't you guys read?
RGSS is a limited version of ruby.
You can't load .c or .so files. There's no way to do this.

 

[vgvgf]

Oh, god.
Can't you guys read?
RGSS is a limited version of ruby.
You can't load .c or .so files. There's no way to do this.

I know that the RGSS is limited, if it were not limited, I would not be requesting something to load it.
There's no way to do this with the original RGSS, but it can be expanded for load .so or .c files; or another way to use the Win32OLE class.

 

[Selwyn]

One way would be to create a DLL which could call the SAPI functions you'd need.
But it requires some knowledge of C# and of SAPI of course...

 

[vgvgf]

There exists a SAPI dll(Download Link), but I don't know what API calls are for the "text-to-speech" function(The function I want to use). I can't find documentation for this dll anywhere.

 

[Selwyn]

It looks like there's a function called Speak_String within the DLL.
Here's the function's arguments : (text, voice_number, delkeep, uvs, volume, ups, pitch, uss, speed)
Note that I have no idea what those arguments refers to.
But it looks like you need to initialize other functions for this to work...

 

[vgvgf]

Thanks Selwyn, searching for this function, I have found some API calls for the sapi.dll in VB. I am close to finish my speaking script.