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Post by scslowik on Jan 17, 2009 13:15:29 GMT -5
Is it possible to access the Win API and OLE enabled applications with RB?
Specifically, I would like to manipulate Excel cells, and return results to RB.
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Post by Carl Gundel - admin on Jan 17, 2009 14:16:48 GMT -5
Hi,
At this time there is no ability to interact with OLE or Active-X controls, or even DLLs. You can read/write files, and you can use the shell$() function to call an external program.
-Carl
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Post by scslowik on Jan 18, 2009 12:30:35 GMT -5
So... A workaround would be to have RB write a file with Excel input values, shell to the Excel workbook which has a macro that runs upon opening, the macro reads the input file, has Excel do its thing, and writes the output to a file. RB can then read the output file and continue.
Does this sound plausible?
Will the RB shell 'wait' for the external program to finish? If not, I guess RB can loop and wait for a 'finished' flag.
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