Re: Just done my first app in Forms!

Hmmm....
Did you check metalink?

There's a lot of stuff concerning open Word etc. i will try to look up some code and post it here, ok?

"Nick" <aroughguy_at_nsp.toughguy.net> wrote in message news:i6tq9.15295$Sr6.494283_at_ozemail.com.au...
> "Stephan" <test_at_test.com> wrote in message
> news:2whq9.19758$I8.425762_at_nlnews00.chello.com...
> > Please repost your question.
>
>
> I'm using Forms 6i on WinXP Pro.
> In a form, how can we open a pop-up window and display (just display the
> content) of a Word (or RTF) document?
>
> I have tried as instructed by the online Help ('About embedding an OLE
> object')
> - Create a new OLE object (container) on the canvas
> - Link it to an existing file (right click then Insert Object)
> - Importing OLE library interfaces (Object class: Word.Document.8)
>
> But I have problem with the last step
> - What method packages and event packages should I select if I want to
> display (and may be zoom) the content (no other Word functionalities)
> - I have tried selecting just a few packages and I already got too many
> compilation errors and the first error is always: 'program too large'
>
> I then just put this in a button trigger:
> (I already have an OLE object help_doc on the main block)
>
> ole_item := FIND_ITEM('main_block.help_doc');
> IF NOT ID_NULL(ole_item)
> THEN
> Forms_OLE.Initialize_Container(ole_item, 'C:\help.doc');
> END IF;
>
> IF Forms_OLE.Server_Active(ole_item) = FALSE
> THEN
> Forms_OLE.Activate_Server(ole_item);
> END IF;
>
> But I got FRM-41344: OLE object not defined for help_doc in the urrent
> record
> Damn it , What's wrong? I obviously initialized the OLE object!
>
>
> An answer:
> We had a similar problem within a pure MS environment - initializing the
> OLE server takes time. We solved it by waiting a short time between
> initializing and activating the OLE server.
>
>
>
> But adding a delay didn't work
>
> Nick
>
>
>
Received on Mon Oct 14 2002 - 19:10:21 CEST