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|    Jim Hargan to Anders Jonsson    |
|    Re: Paradox 10 DDE and word 2007 on Vist    |
|    20 Jan 08 13:39:55    |
      From: noJimspam@omitThisHarganonline.com              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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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