Pablo - a final update before I close for the night. The Word test on the pharo 8 version comes up green. The strange error message is nowhere to be seen in any Pharo 8 runs. The result is not what I expected; I finish up with two Word documents open, one with the first message, the other with the two messages. I thought the 'finalize' command would close it down.
Anyway, it looks as if I need to switch to P8 to use Pharo-Com. I shall continue testing tomorrow on P8. Sorry for the late-night hassle. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> On Behalf Of PBKResearch Sent: 05 April 2020 21:57 To: 'Any question about pharo is welcome' <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Automation of MS Office from Pharo Pablo - Thanks for this. Just one bit of news. While I was waiting, I opened a new Pharo 8 image, installed Pharo-Com 9the right one!) and tried to run some of your tests. The Word test started to work, then stopped saying 'test took too long'. But it did open a Word document, and in one trial it printed the opening message. The variant tests were all green. So there are signs that the problem lies with P7. So don't worry too much about me - I probably fouled something up. Peter. -----Original Message----- From: Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> On Behalf Of teso...@gmail.com Sent: 05 April 2020 21:47 To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Automation of MS Office from Pharo Ok, I was trying to find an easy solution. I will try tomorrow morning to see the problem. Sorry, On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:29 PM PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> wrote: > > Pablo – Yes, I saw the instruction. I used the quoted Metacello > procedure for P7 – I used copy and paste from the repo Readme. Peter > > > > From: Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> On Behalf Of > teso...@gmail.com > Sent: 05 April 2020 21:19 > To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Automation of MS Office from Pharo > > > > The install instructions are not the same for Pharo 7, or pharo 8/9 > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 22:18 teso...@gmail.com <teso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you are using pharo 7, you have to install a different branch of > the project. Check in the documentation of pharo-com(the read me in > the same repo) > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 21:41 PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> wrote: > > Hello Pablo > > Many thanks for the suggestion. I have tried to use Pharo-Com to connect to > Outlook, and have now got myself into a complete tangle. I have been able to > connect to my already-running copy of Outlook, but when I tried to enter > propertyNamed: 'Folders', an error message appeared with the text: "Instance > of FFIExternalObjectType did not understand emitArgument:context:inCallout:". > I could not understand this, so I closed the debugger, assuming the effects > would be unwound. > > I found that, whatever I tried after that, the same message appeared. In > desperation I closed down Pharo, without saving the image, and started again. > Whatever I tried in using Pharo-Com, the exact same message appeared. Even > when I tried running one of your tests, the same message. > > It seems clear that something in my system, not part of Pharo, has been > changed in a way which persists from one run of Pharo to another. I have no > idea what it can be, but I see that some parts of Pharo-Com address the > registry, so I wonder if I have corrupted that in some way. > > For the time being I have stopped work on Pharo-Com. I hope that a night's > sleep will bring inspiration. In case it means anything to you, I attach a > screenshot of the error stack when I try to run the testWord case in > PharoCOM-Tests. > > Thanks again > > Peter Kenny > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> On Behalf Of > teso...@gmail.com > Sent: 05 April 2020 16:23 > To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Automation of MS Office from Pharo > > Hello, > One of the alternatives to integrate with Office is the use of the COM > interface. There is an implementation in > https://github.com/tesonep/pharo-com. In the test package, there are examples > to integrate with Word, Excell, Internet Explorer, and Access. Integration > with Outlook can be done in the same fashion. It is good that the API of all > the Office products is heavily documented. > > You can get more information about how to use Outlook here: > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/overview/outlook/objec > t-model > > If you have any questions, please let me know. > Cheers, > Pablo. > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 2:44 PM PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Hello All > > > > > > > > I am using Pharo (currently P7, moving to P8) under Windows 10. I have MS > > Office 365 on my system, and use it regularly for non-Smalltalk tasks. It > > would be very convenient if I could issue commands to MS Office components > > from within Pharo. My current interest is to manage my incoming e-mails in > > Outlook, but I can see many other applications. I have a recollection of > > seeing a reference to automation of Excel to transfer data both ways, but I > > cannot recall where. I have searched the catalog, but could not see > > anything that looked relevant. I have also read the uFFI booklet, but again > > no luck. Could anyone point me to any information or examples of such > > control, please? It would not have to be Outlook, though that is my main > > interest; given examples for other Office components, I should be able to > > follow the pattern. > > > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > > > Peter Kenny > > > > -- > Pablo Tesone. > teso...@gmail.com -- Pablo Tesone. teso...@gmail.com
