Re: Paradox 10 DDE and word 2007 on Vista


Scripting to word 2007 and calling the macros from there will be a good work
around. But will be faster than the time I have wasted trying to get it
to work so far. The fact that Microsoft depricated the DDE function was
reassuring as I was hoping for stability ie no changes. That worked from
wn95 to now. My other workaround may be to call paradox routines running
word 2003 on a winxp computer just to format and print my output the old
way. Jim Hargan <noJimspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:06:33 +0100, Anders Jonsson wrote:

IMHO controlling one app from another is always a "risky" thing. Personally

I haven't had much good experience with DDE and I can't recall that many

here in the groups that have used it. Oleauto seems slightly better but

still could be easily broken if one of the application changes.

Just a thought here. Wouldn't scripting be a more stable way of calling
one
application from another? Write a .vbs script for Office that does what
you
want, then execute it from within OPAL.

--
Jim Hargan

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