Re: Using OLE in Forms 5.0 to call Word 97

Check out http://technet.oracle.com. You will find several excellent pdf files describing the use of ole with developer products.

HTH. Brian.

<drobinson1_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:87c7iu$es8$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> I have a basic requirement which involves using Forms 5 to call MS Word
> in order to print and/or view documents on the filesystem.
>
> Preferably it should also be able to use Word to print not only DOC
> files, but also other files which can be handled by Word, such as RTF
> and HTML. The actual filenames will be known only at runtime, whether
> by fetching from the database or accepting user input (thus no
> predefined OLE/OCX links or embedding at design time).
>
> Unfortunately the available documentation on using OLE in Forms is very
> scarce. All I have now are the few pages available in the Forms
> Advanced Techniques manual and a document from technet.oracle.com titled
> "WIN: OLE AUTOMATION GUIDE-ORACLE FORMS TO MICROSOFT WORD" which
> describes some operations using WordBasic via the OLE2 package. And
> I can barely find anything on using the procedures and packages created
> by the OLE importer.
>
> Can any of you please give an example of how to print a document via
> Word based on a filename (without necessarily opening Word in a visible
> manner), or of invoking Word to open a file for viewing? Or ANY working
> example of using procedures from the OLE importer to call ANYTHING with
> Word or Excel? Or could you point me to some more thorough
> documentation (web sites or books) on using OLE in Forms?
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 09:55:16 CST