On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 11:49 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
RR can do DDE using the old Externals Collection available on the RunRevIn my project I need to write reports out in MS Word and MS Excel formats. Realbasic has a "MS Office Automation" plugin, but it was slow and buggy as $%^&. It was of the reasons I switched to Rev.
site, but my understanding is that DDE is to be phased out as of WindowsXP.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable about MS/Windows can elaborate.
So I am currently putting VBA code to write the reports in an Excel template file, and the VBA code runs when I copy the Excel file into place and launch it. It's a tedious way to do it and VBA code is really hard to get right when you have to deal with lots of different MS Office versions.
So, what is DDE and why is it being deprecated, and what is replacing it?
Does anyone have examples of how I can execute VBA code via DDE from Revolution?
Where is this "old" Externals Collection for Windows? I don't see it on runrev.com. OK is this it? http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/external.htm ? I found it in the list archives. Maybe it should be added to the runrev.com site?
Many thanks in advance,
Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
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