I have an Excel file on my hard drive that I would like to access from within
revolution (just like I can access the Internet through RevGoUrl). What
command can issue to open and see the file? I am having some trouble trying
to
do this through the "open" or "open file" commands. Thanks.
Maybe I'm a bit stupid - but this seems rather redundant;
unless one is building a sort of TaskBar with RR.
What is much more interesting, to my mind, is the ability
of RR stacks to import data from documents/files generated
by other applications (cf RR's database capabilities),
process it, and, i
Hi Phil,
No, I'm not interested in importing data from the Excel sheet into Rev, just
opening an existing Excel application from a command in Rev. I still can't
seem to do this. I've put the Excel file (and also the Excel application)
into the same folder as the Revolution stack and just iss
Hi Steve!
You can use the "launch" command for this. Here's a basic script I just
put together and used to open a PDF file with Acrobat Reader:
on mouseUp
answer file "file?"
if it = empty then exit mouseUp
put it into tFile
answer file "app?"
if it = empty then exit mouseUp
put i
After reading Mathewson's post and re-reading yours, Steve, I'm guessing
I mis-answered earlier. You would rather get spreadsheet data out of the
spreadsheet and into Rev, right?
It might be possible to write a vbscript that reaches out and asks Excel
to give it the tab-delimited text of some
On 2/8/06 6:24 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an Excel file on my hard drive that I would like to access from within
> revolution (just like I can access the Internet through RevGoUrl). What
> command can issue to open and see the file? I am having some trouble try
Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm not interested in importing data from the Excel sheet into Rev, just
> opening an existing Excel application from a command in Rev. I still can't
> seem to do this. I've put the Excel file (and also the Excel application)
> into the same folder as the R
hi
Had the same problem in the past..
Found the best solution (so far) is to use an external command launcher,
at the mo i use..
on Windows: runfile.exe
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?50001891
on OS X: launch
http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/
.. and use rev's shell command to launch
