Be very careful if you decide to auto-start PowerPoint or Excel in a
background user. Make sure you are doing it AFTER the GDI environment
is setup. To go too early will lead you into Windows restart hell.
Of course, if Microsoft cared to they could make these applications
wait in this case... instead power-off / safe mode blah blah -
argghhh! where's my blood pressure medicine.
Good luck.
Dave
On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Anthony Andrews wrote:
That does sound familiar!
There is one thing I should warn you about however, Microsoft warn
against controlling an application such as Excel - and you will
need to drive an instance of Excel I think - using COM/OLE from
within another application. There are a number of reasons given but
the main one seems to be that Excel is designed to be used
interactively and becuase there is no easy way to trap and handle
the error message it issues then the user could quite quickly run
into problems. Having said that, I did it after writing my own OLE
code.
kruce lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Anthony Andrews, Thank
you in advance.
The tool you recommend should be Jacob and I will also dig Mucrosoft's
COM API for more info.
On 9/12/06, Anthony Andrews
wrote:
As far as I am aware (and bear in mind that I could very well be
wrong) HSSF is an API that allows you to generate Excel
spreadsheets and does not have any support for printing. I managed
to get around exactly the same problem by using OLE but this is a
far from perfect solution as it caused almost as many problems as
it solved; it is however one possible solution.
I know there is a tool that someone wrote that is a wrapper around
JNI, making it far more easy to use external applications in a way
that mimics Microsoft's COM model. I cannot remember the name at
the moment but will have a dig around on my PC as I seem to
remember testing it sometime in the past.
kruce lee wrote: Hi everybody
How to print a excel file automatically when I get the file path
or resource.
Can someone give me a snippet.
Any help would be highly appreciated
kruce.
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