Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-15 Thread Mathieu Fernandez
Rick Winscot a écrit : Then the complexity of your solution just jumped a notch... since there is a very big gap getting things in/out of Flex. Let just say that you could scaffold in a Word .doc in Flex... what then? You'd have to have a web server running locally to read or write anything to

Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-15 Thread Farid SALAH
Le 15 mai 08 à 10:27, Mathieu Fernandez a écrit : Rick Winscot a écrit : Then the complexity of your solution just jumped a notch… since there is a very big gap getting things in/out of Flex. Let just say that you could scaffold in a Word .doc in Flex… what then? You’d have to have a web

Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-14 Thread Anirudh Sasikumar
If PDF is possible, also take a look at AlivePDF http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/ On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Rick Winscot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If at all possible… if .pdf is an option Mars is worth a look. Cheers, -- Anirudh Sasikumar http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/

Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel Freiman
Office 2003 has files defined in XML. (This isn't the default file format but it is available). I don't know if the spec is published but you could alway reverse engineer it a little and write directly to that spec. On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Anirudh Sasikumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-14 Thread Derrick Anderson
this site may help as well http://openxmldeveloper.org/ d. On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Daniel Freiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Office 2003 has files defined in XML. (This isn't the default file format but it is available). I don't know if the spec is published but you could alway

[flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Mathieu Fernandez
Hi everybody, My question is very easy : how can Icreate .doc file using Flex 3 ? Is there any library ? component ? module that I can use to ? Thank you in advance.

RE: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Rick Winscot
time loading/saving anything or interfacing with anything client side). Rick Winscot From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mathieu Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:15 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files

Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Mathieu Fernandez wrote: My question is very easy : how can Icreate .doc file using Flex 3 ? Is there any library ? component ? module that I can use to ? You use the POI Java project via ExternalInterface... -- Tom Chiverton

Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Mathieu Fernandez
Tom Chiverton a écrit : You use the POI Java project via ExternalInterface... Could you be more precise ? I can use the API Java POI but how ? How can I connect Java and Flex ? Rick Winscott a écrit : Hmm... Microsoft can barely do that! Seriously though -- a native .doc file? Directly --

Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Mathieu Fernandez
Rick Winscot a écrit : Hmm... Microsoft can barely do that! Seriously though -- a native .doc file? Directly -- no. If you have a server with a product like Aspose Word (www.aspose.com http://www.aspose.com) installed -- maybe. The straight forward scenario is to install components or

Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Mathieu Fernandez wrote: How can I connect Java and Flex ? ExternalInterface, apparently. According to the list archives and Google. Never done it myself. Remember AIR isn't 'meant' to be able to call out to the O/S, so any solution may or may not be stable, and of

RE: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Jim Hayes
May 2008 15:50 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ? Rick Winscot a écrit : Hmm... Microsoft can barely do that! Seriously though - a native .doc file? Directly - no. If you have a server with a product like Aspose Word

Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Mathieu Fernandez
Tom Chiverton a écrit : ExternalInterface, apparently. According to the list archives and Google. Never done it myself. Remember AIR isn't 'meant' to be able to call out to the O/S, so any solution may or may not be stable, and of course you now have to ship a JRE and some .jar files with

Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Mathieu Fernandez
Jim Hayes a écrit : How much of a word document do you want, if that's not a totally stupid question? I have in the past created an html file, saved it with a .doc file extention and word seemed quite happy to open and display it (I'm refering to windows, mac may well be / probably is

RE: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread zoltan
Of Mathieu Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:50 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ? Rick Winscot a écrit : Hmm… Microsoft can barely do that! Seriously though – a native .doc file? Directly – no. If you have

Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Mathieu Fernandez
zoltan a écrit : If you need this functionality only for windows and you are using AIR then this may help you http://aperture.fluorinefx.com/ http://aperture.fluorinefx.com/ As it does not provide currently any word specific api one option would be to save an xml file with the content then

RE: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Aebig
10:06 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ? zoltan a écrit : If you need this functionality only for windows and you are using AIR then this may help you http://aperture. http://aperture.fluorinefx.com/ fluorinefx.com

RE: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Rick Winscot
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mathieu Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:50 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ? Rick Winscot a écrit : Hmm… Microsoft can barely do that! Seriously though

RE: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ?

2008-05-13 Thread Rick Winscot
: Re: [flexcoders] How to create .doc files (Word files) with Flex ? Jim Hayes a écrit : How much of a “word” document do you want, if that’s not a totally stupid question? I have in the past created an html file, saved it with a .doc file extention and word seemed quite happy to open