On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 12:21 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
Hi Sims,
Too bad you're on a PC, or this wouldn't have been too hard to implement using AppleScript. On Windows, you may have a shot at it using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) calls. Even though DDE isn't supported directly in RunRev, there's the Externals Collection : http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/external.htm You can use Google to find a group where you can ask for more info on MS Word DDE calls.
I have googled around a fair amount on this topic in the past, and got nowhere. I have absolutely no idea what one can or cannot do with DDE and how to get started with it. If anyone has that golden URL or book reference I would be happy to hear it.
I have used the MS Office Automation APIs from VBA (in MS Excel) and from Realbasic. It's pretty easy to learn since the API is documented in the MS Office Help on Windows. The Realbasic implementation was pretty slow and buggy. I'm guessing it's not an easy programming problem.
Also isn't DDE double-deprecated now? Someone told me it was the predecessor of COM which is out of favor, now with .NET? Sheesh. Richmond.
On Windows isn't there some kind of Scripting Engine Architecture? Now Perl and Python on Win32 are (relatively more) first class citizens than they used to be. They have nice distributions that hook into Win32 and COM APIs pretty extensively. The PythonWin distribution is very cool. You can write Python scripts with native Win32 API GUI and call any old DLL. It's a cool trick. Runrev needs to hook into that stuff too.
There has got to be some way for Runrev to communicate with other apps on Windows. Especially MS Office.
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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