On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 02:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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- How does RR interact with foreign Windows systems, like Arabic
(reading and typing from right to left) and has anyone tested
something like this in RR?
- Since RR doesn't support VB-commands (the reason for choosing
not doing this, would be very welcome...) we need a way to
send commands and data to a stack from FileMaker.
I guess the only way to do this is using the DDE-external? I
don't seem to get this working from FileMaker, any help is welcome...
(Going from FMP to RR would be done through DDE, from RR to
FileMaker would be done through VB and the shell command.)
...
Typing this, I really, really wonder why there is no support for VisualHow about more questions... :-) my employer uses Excel for most everything. So naturally I'm looking at ways to communicate between Rev and Excel.
Basic and VBA, because the majority of programs have API's for this language
on the windows platform. I use Applescripting on the mac, but have to twist
myself into very strange curves to do simular things on Windows...
Any help and/or advice is welcome :-)
Correct me if I'm wrong, it looks like there is no cross-platform solution. On Mac OS the preferred way would be to use the Applescript API for Excel, and on Windows the preferred way would be to use the DDE external?
Now, the Applescript API for Excel looks like it's more or less the same classes and events as the VBA interface... what about the DDE interface? Do DDE "commands" and "topics" have anything in common with the VBA and Applescript APIs?
BTW, one of RunRev's competitors wrote a VBA-like MS Office automation plugin and it was horrendously unstable- on Mac. So, in a way, I think it would be better to use the most-solid method on Mac and Windows, even if they are different methods of access.
Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
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