OLE: Determining which COM objects are used

[mastermagrath]

Hi,

I've been looking into Win32::OLE and have got pretty excited about the doors it has opened! I'm looking to automate a few things e.g. an internet explorer web brwosing session. I can create the explorer window, monitor for events and load various URL's from the perl script. However i'm wondering is there a tool somewhere that can actually monitor what objects are used and the methods called in real time when using windows and its various applications. That way i could then see which applications use what and then simply apply these to my script.
I have oleview.exe from microsoft which is pretty handy but it is very difficult to find the correct object/methods/interfaces etc that interest me. I thought it would be easier to just use the applicqation i'm interested in and have a tool to record the objects/methods etc that get utilised during user interaction.
Either that or does anyone know of any resources (web/book) that lists all this OLE information for the various microsoft applications?

Thanks in advance

 

[PaulTEG]

http://www.sysinternals.com

is where I'd start looking for something like this, having said that I haven't looked for this explicitly

http://www.roth.net

would also be a good spot to look

HTH
--Paul

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