Re: OLE2 & Excel

Hi.
Have you used (hear about) Second Wind?
If so, can you tell me what Oraxcel offers that Second Wind doesn't?

Thanks
Tony.

Gerrit-Jan Linker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Don't know if you're interested but I've coded an app the other way around.
> Embed Oracle into Excel. I've even written an article about it so you can
> read how you can do something like this.
>
> Please have a look at Oraxcel - my Oracle to Excel bridge - at
>
> http://members.aol.com/gjlinker
>
> Regards, Gerrit-Jan
>
> plant.eng_at_lund.mail.telia.com wrote in message
> <374C3FF6.80BC7639_at_lund.mail.telia.com>...
> >Hi.
> >Can you tell me how did you get Excel working at all?
> >I am fighting with getting Excel visible from Forms 5 using the code from:
> >WIN:OLE AUTOMATION GUIDE-ORACLE FORMS TO MICROSOFT EXCEL
> >
> >DECLARE
> > application OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
> >BEGIN
> > application:=OLE2.CREATE_OBJ('Excel.Application');
> > OLE2.SET_PROPERTY(application, 'Visible', 'True');
> >END;
> >
> >At this stage the spreadsheet should be visible, but it is not.
> >
> >Any help apretiated.
> >
> >Regards Tony.
> >
> >Howard Porter wrote:
> >
> >> I seem unable to get Excel columns to automatically format based on the
> >> width of the data passed from Oracle. I have tried various combinations
> >> of Range and AutoFit and nothing works.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Howard
> >
> >
> >
Received on Sun Jun 20 1999 - 23:58:52 CEST