OLE in Forms 5 (IDataObject)

From: <bwooldridge_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:35:05 GMT
Message-ID: <7bjrs8$dfc$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>



[Quoted] I need some help using OLE with Forms 5. I have need to retrieve sections of Word 8 documents in Rich Text Format to save into a 7.3.4 database table.

I need a way to return the formatted stream from Word to Forms. DDE doesn't work under Forms 5 for this, so I am trying to use OLE.

Has anyone tried to use the IDataObject interface through Forms? Word supports it, and the ::GetData method will return RTF, but the parameters to ::GetData are structures that I don't know how to reference in pl/sql on the form.

Anybody doing anything like this? I need help like yesterday on this one. My other route is going to be to make a windows dll to do the COM stuff and pass back the RTF string to the form, but the C++ is a little rough (for me).

tia

bw

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