On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Rainer Schwarze wrote:
Are there any objections against such a tool in general? (besides from "only runs on Windows" :-) )
I can't think of any. It's a real pain that such a tool is needed, but I can't see any way around it
If possible, it'd be good to set up a framework for calling an office program, having it open a file, having it save a file, see if it crashes etc. That way, we could use it for powerpoint, excel etc in future if we felt it'd help
Is there a better approach for that?
Normally, calling COM from java to do stuff is a nightmare, because you have to deal with all sorts of dialogues, what ifs etc. However, since any sort of dialogue probably indicates that there was a problem, having it hang with a dialogue up until you kill the process probably isn't too bad.
Should jacob not be suitable, which "development environment" would be recommended?
Alas I don't have any experience in this area, sorry. Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta POI Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
