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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.   
      
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