As quite a few Windows OLE-samples date back to the end of the 90's, begin of
the 00's, some Windows
applications might not exist anymore like Lotus/IBM WordPro and Lotus/IBM Lotus
123. When running
the appropriate samples from samples\ole\apps there will be cryptic OLE errors
and - at least some
of my students - would not be able to find out what the problem is, just, that
ooRexx does not work
on their machine.
Therefore I would suggest to add comments to the samples that inform the
interested reader what
application gets remote controlled via OLE, such that they can understand
errors, if they run
samples for applications that they have not installed on their machines. Maybe
adding a "signal on
syntax", denoting the application and using a "parse pull ." to keep the window
open , if the
application got started with a double-click from the Explorer.
Question 1: Is there anyone who would object if I changed these apps
accordingly?
Also, while being there, I would very much like to change the Excel-sample
(sample09.rex) in the
following way:
* change the loop variable "j" to "line" and "i" to "column",
* rename "myTitles" to "columnTitles" fetch the column letter from the
variable "columnTitles"
with the new [] operator instead of substr, change the column title from
"title" to "columnLetter"
* changing the sum formula: replace "~translate" with the appropriate
"~changeStr"
* saving location: use environment variable "USERPROFILE" instead of "TEMP",
such that the user
will be able to locate the generated Excel spreadsheet in her home directory
Question 2: is there anyone who would object if I changed samp09.rex as
described?
---rony
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