C++ COM

[nerobot]

Hi,

Does anyone have any information, and possible a quick demo of how to use the COM interface - being controlled via C or C++ - to control BA. Also, if any of the following are not possible, I would be very grateful if you could let me know.

- Obtain the market data (i.e. back1 prices, lay prices, volumes, etc)
- Control the quick pick list (i.e. move to next race as can be done with Excel, update the quick pick list, etc)
- Control the refresh rate.
- Place backs and lays.
- Obtain the time until the next off.

Thanks for any information you can give. And I'll be sure to answer any questions to help.

Regards,

Steven

[nerobot]

Thinking about this more myself, the COM interface might not be the best way around it. Perhaps I could control BA via Excel, but simply call a C++ dll from within the Excel VBA code. Would this be a simpler way of doing it?

The C++ could would contain a dynamically changing algorithm that will would tell BA when to back or lay (sadly can't be done direly from within Excel VBA as it would be too slow and the code required too much dynamic memory allocation).

Regards,

Steven

[GaryRussell]

Thinking about this more myself, the COM interface might not be the best way around it. Perhaps I could control BA via Excel, but simply call a C++ dll from within the Excel VBA code. Would this be a simpler way of doing it?

The C++ could would contain a dynamically changing algorithm that will would tell BA when to back or lay (sadly can't be done direly from within Excel VBA as it would be too slow and the code required too much dynamic memory allocation).

Regards,

Steven

I don't program in C++ myself, but from what I do know the DLL option would be simpler.

[nerobot]

Cheers,

Think I'll just go for the dll route, as it seems a lot easier.

Steven