I think Office is tied to ActiveScripting which is COM based. I am not sure any ActiveScripting language will work either, they may have it tied directly to VBA as was said earlier.
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Curt Hagenlocher <c...@hagenlocher.org>wrote: > VBA is embedded pretty tightly into Word and Excel; there's no way to swap > it out for another scripting engine. > > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Joshua Kramer <j...@globalherald.net>wrote: > >> >> A while back, Slide wrote: >> >> "You'd have to write an add-in for office that hosted the .NET runtime and >> provided a hosting API that IP could interact with. I don't think this >> would be a small undertaking." >> >> Hmm. Is there any way to have MSO "see" IPY as a Scripting or Macro >> Language, like it sees VBA? I am familiar with writing console (or regular) >> apps in C# and using the Microsoft.Office.Interop assemblies - I could do >> this easily from IronPython but I'd rather it be usable from within the MSO >> environment. >> >> OpenOffice is better in this regard because it "sees" Python, Java, and >> Basic as just different scripting / macro languages, and therefore it's easy >> to write Python apps that EITHER run from within the environment or outside. >> >> Cheers, >> -JK >> >> -- >> >> ----- >> http://www.globalherald.net/jb01 >> GlobalHerald.NET, the Smarter Social Network! (tm) >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@lists.ironpython.com >> http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.ironpython.com > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > -- slide-o-blog http://slide-o-blog.blogspot.com/
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