reorganized the samples, again. Moved the programs that were more test cases to the unit test directory and repackaged the unit test directory.

unittest/com/jacob/test/events/ExcelEventTest.java

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+package com.jacob.test.events;
+
+import com.jacob.activeX.ActiveXComponent;
+import com.jacob.com.ComException;
+import com.jacob.com.Dispatch;
+import com.jacob.com.DispatchEvents;
+import com.jacob.com.InvocationProxy;
+import com.jacob.com.Variant;
+
+/**
+ * This test was lifted from a forum posting and shows how you can't listen to
+ * Excel events (added post 1.9.1 Eclipse Settings.)  This also uses the 1.9.1 
+ * InvocationProxy to receive the events.
+ * <p> supported command line options with default values are 
+ * -Djava.library.path=d:/jacob/release -Dcom.jacob.autogc=false
+ * -Dcom.jacob.debug=false
+ */
+public class ExcelEventTest extends InvocationProxy {
+
+	/**
+	 * load up excel, register for events and make stuff happen
+	 * @param args
+	 */
+	public static void main(String args[]) {
+		String pid = "Excel.Application";
+		String typeLibLocation = "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE11\\EXCEL.EXE";
+
+		// Grab The Component.
+		ActiveXComponent axc = new ActiveXComponent(pid);
+		try {
+			// Add a listener (doesn't matter what it is).
+			DispatchEvents de;
+			if (typeLibLocation == null) {
+				de = new DispatchEvents(axc, new ExcelEventTest());
+			} else {
+				de = new DispatchEvents(axc, new ExcelEventTest(), pid,
+						typeLibLocation);
+			}
+			if (de == null) {
+				System.out
+						.println("No exception thrown but no dispatch returned for Excel events");
+			} else {
+				// Yea!
+				System.out.println("Successfully attached to " + pid);
+
+			}
+
+			System.out.println("version=" + axc.getProperty("Version"));
+			System.out.println("version=" + Dispatch.get(axc, "Version"));
+			axc.setProperty("Visible", true);
+			Dispatch workbooks = axc.getPropertyAsComponent("Workbooks");
+			Dispatch workbook = Dispatch.get(workbooks, "Add").toDispatch();
+			Dispatch sheet = Dispatch.get(workbook, "ActiveSheet").toDispatch();
+			Dispatch a1 = Dispatch.invoke(sheet, "Range", Dispatch.Get,
+					new Object[] { "A1" }, new int[1]).toDispatch();
+			Dispatch a2 = Dispatch.invoke(sheet, "Range", Dispatch.Get,
+					new Object[] { "A2" }, new int[1]).toDispatch();
+			Dispatch.put(a1, "Value", "123.456");
+			Dispatch.put(a2, "Formula", "=A1*2");
+			System.out.println("Retrieved a1 from excel:" + Dispatch.get(a1, "Value"));
+			System.out.println("REtrieved a2 from excel:" + Dispatch.get(a2, "Value"));
+			Variant f = new Variant(false);
+			Dispatch.call(workbook, "Close", f);
+			axc.invoke("Quit", new Variant[] {});
+
+		} catch (ComException cfe) {
+			cfe.printStackTrace();
+			System.out.println("Failed to attach to " + pid + ": "
+					+ cfe.getMessage());
+
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * dummy consturctor to create an InvocationProxy that wraps nothing
+	 */
+	public ExcelEventTest() {
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * override the invoke method to log all the events
+	 */
+	public Variant invoke(String methodName, Variant targetParameter[]) {
+		System.out.println("Received event from Windows program" + methodName);
+		return null;
+	}
+
+}