Re: OLE in Forms 5 (IDataObject)

I don't know if this helps but you can copy a selection in Word to the Clipboard and paste it to a text file. Then read in the details from the text file using TEXTIO etc..
if uo need code for Word OLE send me an email to Dinesh.Mistry_at_rebus.co.uk

In article <7bjrs8$dfc$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>,   bwooldridge_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 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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