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Reports 2.5: OLE2 Built-In Package...

From: Michael Rosadino <mrosadino_at_connico.net>
Date: 1997/09/17
Message-ID: <342061D3.1196@connico.net>#1/1

I'm trying to start up Microsoft Word from an Oracle report trigger and open a file. I've tried to following code, and although it works and starts Word in the background (in memory out of view), I cannot see the Word application, what do I need to do to view Word: /+
  Procedure OpenOLEObject Is

    objapp		OLE2.OBJECT;
    objapp_arglist	OLE2.LISTTYPE;

  BEGIN
    OLE2.CREATE_ARGLIST(objapp_arglist);
    OLE2.CREATE_OBJECT(objapp, 'Word.Basic');
    OLE2.ADD_ARG(objapp_arglist, 'C:\MYFILE.TXT');
    OLE2.INVOKE(objapp,'FileOpen', objapp_arglist);
    OLE2.DESTROY_ARGLIST(objapp_arglist);
    OLE2.RELEASE_OBJECT(objapp);

  END;
+/
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
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Michael Rosadino
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Received on Wed Sep 17 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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