Plug-ins

[Guss Hasb]

I will be converting soon a Tiff viewer into a plugin for IE.
I am looking for Information and/or "How to Example" on creating plug-ins for IE.
Any input is apreciated.
Thank you.

[RPR]

I asked this very question last week and got no feedback. What I can tell you is that there isn't much documentation out there - and certainly none in MSDN. There is a book on writing plug-ins for Netscape: "Programming Applications For Netscape Servers" 1998 by Kaveh Bassiri.

Stingray Software has a product, Objective Plug-in, that I'm interested in (~$1,000). OTP supposedly generates different plug-ins for IE and Netscape. The samples look very good (one for Objective Grid, another for Objective Chart).

Finally, if you design your application appropriately, it should be relatively painless (famous last words) to generate both a client and plug-in app. Some basic guidelines: you can't have a menubar, accelerators don't work, etc. Other things like toolbars lose their tooltips but docking, etc. work fine.

Please send me email if you want to correspond.

Bob

[Guss Hasb]

Hi Bob ,
I did try unsuccessfully to find out more about "Objective Plug-in" from the StingRay web site .
Is it called something else may be? I am very interested in looking at this product. Can you supply me with more information?

About Plug in info for IE:
I did contact Microsoft and they recommended a set of books "VC++ Reference Library" from MS Press #"1-57231-865-1 ~$150", that cover the plug in issue.
also, I'll be contacting another Microsoft department for support about this issue and see what they recommend. May be a "How to example". I'll keep you posted.

Again , Thank you for your reply..
Guss

[RPR]

From what I can tell, Stingray still sells the plug-in product (OPI), but they don't do much with the product either in terms of new releases or bug fixes. My guess is that there just wasn't a market for it. Looking at their web site, it seems that they have removed any mention of it. Lately, it seems that Stingray has been folded into Rogue Wave and things are definitely different there now - ah progress.

I did correspond with their OPI developer (Matthew Etter) for awhile -- this was in Jan99. I wouldn't be surprised if you could still buy the product but support and future enhancements might be non-existent.

I still have their demo and white paper if you are interested - make sure they sell it first. My email is bryan@pumatech.com