Re: Forms 4.5 and launching a Word Document
Date: 1997/07/23
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kbarnes_at_airmail.net says...
I am thinking about using forms 4.5 (and later 5.0) for an application that a client wants. I need the ability to do the following:
- Load a Word document from the hard drive and save it as a blob in the database.
- Retrieve the doc(blob) from the database at a later date and launch word to edit it/print it, etc.
I feel there should be no problem storing the doc as a blob.
I dont care if I have to save the file to disk (temp) and then launch word with the file as an argument as long as I can get the blob out from within a forms application.
Has anyone done this and is it possible ?
TIA, Kevin Barnes
Kevin,
Yes it is possible, what you need to look at is the ole2 package. I think there is some white papers about this too. Anyway once you launched word you can use the wordbasic language with ole2 function. This quiet a long work but it does the trick.
Y. Received on Wed Jul 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST