I did some research. The Macintosh can no longer send apple events to Excel, or indeed any other Microsoft product, due to the fact that Apple Sandboxing prevents it. There ought, I suppose, to be a way to grant this access, but Appleand/or Microsoft has decided to prevent it, making the excel_lib worthless on MacOS.
The more programmers and politicians set about to help me, the less I am able to help myself. Bob S > On Mar 15, 2022, at 14:50 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi all. > > I am trying to incorporate Excel_Lib into a project. There is a command to > open a spreadsheet with Excel on a Mac, and ONLY Macs can use this command. > It looks however like the library works with Windows too. > > My issue is that I am getting an error, "XCELLibErr: Not authorized to send > Apple events to Microsoft Excel." So first, is there an easy way, like a > shell command to do this? And then if not, is using this library dependent on > Apple events on a Mac? > > Bob S > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
