Re: CFMX 6.1 & PowerPoint

2004-06-18 Thread Dick Applebaum
I sent this yesterday, but didn't see it appear on the list (I was having mail probs). Apologies if this is a duplicate post. You might be able to do it by CFExecuting an OSA script: Here's some info on the Mac using AppleScript (Apple's OSA scripting language).     http://www.apple.com/apple

RE: CFMX 6.1 & PowerPoint

2004-06-17 Thread Tangorre, Michael
> I successfully got a nice PPT application working on CFMX > using the PPT COM objects. However it was just not very > stable. I've been meaning to come back to the issue now with > Office 2003. O'Reily just relased an Office2k3 XML book, you > may want to look into it. PowerPoint 2003 got sh

Re: CFMX 6.1 & PowerPoint

2004-06-17 Thread Dick Applebaum
You might be able to do it by CFExecuting an OSA script: Here's some info on the Mac using AppleScript (Apple's OSA scripting language).     http://www.apple.com/applescript/powerpoint/ It says you can create and edit slides! Since MS put the hooks into PowerPoint, I assume they have an OSA s

Re: CFMX 6.1 & PowerPoint

2004-06-17 Thread Adrocknaphobia
al Message - From: George Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:22:47 -0400 Subject: Re: CFMX 6.1 & PowerPoint To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Welcome to my world, Mike! I am saddled with somewhat the same problem. I managed to do some stunts with CF5 and make it

Re: CFMX 6.1 & PowerPoint

2004-06-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jun 2004 16:17 pm, Tangorre, Michael wrote: > Has anyone looked into, or successfully integrated CF with PowerPoint. That are Java objects that will read/write powerPoint, if that is a route you want to explore. -- Tom Chiverton Advanced ColdFusion Programmer Tel: +44(0)1749 8

RE: CFMX 6.1 & PowerPoint

2004-06-17 Thread Tangorre, Michael
Thanks George. I will check for the presentation. I have been reading up on some JAVA based solutions but everything is always noted as "not safe for running on an unattended server" leading me to believe that messing with PPTs is not the best idea on a heavily used production box... Nonetheless I

Re: CFMX 6.1 & PowerPoint

2004-06-17 Thread George Abraham
Welcome to my world, Mike! I am saddled with somewhat the same problem. I managed to do some stunts with CF5 and make it work. Right now CFMX just plain doesn't like the same code. I do have some time before I have to change the code for CFMX. Anyway, have you seen anything with the Jintegra Ja

CFMX 6.1 & PowerPoint

2004-06-17 Thread Tangorre, Michael
Has anyone looked into, or successfully integrated CF with PowerPoint. A requirement came in today whereby some upper management people want a PowerPoint presentation dynamically populated from data within the application. If the application were written in ASP.NET or something MS, I'm sure it woul