System and method for interoperability between an embedded activex control and an external application
View Patent ↗A system and method for enabling interoperability between an embedded object and an external application. A method may include modifying an original component included in a system to generate a modified component, the modified component adapted to intercept a call to create an instance of the embedded object; obtaining a reference to the instance of the embedded object; storing the reference in a pointers container; generating a representation of the instance based on information in the pointers container, and providing the representation to the external application.
1. A computer-implemented method of enabling interoperability between an object embedded in an embedding application and an external application, the method comprising:
modifying an original component included in a system to generate a modified component, the modified component adapted to intercept a call to create an instance of the embedded object;
obtaining a reference to the instance of the embedded object;
storing the reference in a pointers container;
generating a representation of the instance based on information in the pointers container; and
providing the representation to the external application.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the representation of the instance is performed in real-time.
3. The method of claim 1 , comprising sending, to a monitoring unit, data related to the instance of the embedded object.
4. The method of claim 1 , comprising selectively generating a representation for a given instance of an embedded object based on a type of the embedded object.
5. The method of claim 1 , comprising generating the representation according to a .NET framework.
6. The method of claim 1 , comprising generating the representation upon receiving a request from the external application.
7. The method of claim 1 , comprising determining the instance of the embedded object was destroyed and removing the reference from the pointers container.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instance of the embedded object is an ActiveX object.
9. An article comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon instructions, that when executed on a computer, cause the computer to:
modify an original component included in a system to generate a modified component, the modified component adapted to intercept a call to create an instance of the embedded object;
obtain a reference to the instance of the embedded object;
storing the reference in a pointers container;
generate a representation of the instance based on information in the pointers container; and
provide the representation to an external application.
10. The article of claim 9 , wherein generating the representation of the instance is performed in real-time.
11. The article of claim 9 , wherein the instructions when executed further result in sending, to a monitoring unit, data related to the instance of the embedded object.
12. The article of claim 9 , wherein the instructions when executed further result in selectively generating a representation for a given instance of an embedded object based on a type of the embedded object.
13. The article of claim 9 , wherein the instructions when executed further result in generating the representation according to a .NET framework.
14. The article of claim 9 , wherein the instructions when executed further result in generating the representation upon receiving a request from the external application.
15. The article of claim 9 , wherein the instructions when executed further result in determining the instance of the embedded object was destroyed and removing the reference from the pointers container.
16. The article of claim 9 , wherein the instance of the embedded object is an ActiveX object.