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Re: Word Automation HELP

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Subject: Re: Word Automation HELP
From: "John Melson" <jamelson at kaxy dot com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:40:46 -0500
References: <8FE3877F-0909-11D8-8920-0003933F8BD8 at earthlink dot net>
I don't understand how it would work on Windows because you don't have 
AppleScript on Windows???

----- Original Message -----
From: "German W. Bauer" <germanbauer at earthlink dot net>
To: "REALbasic Betas" <realbasic-betas at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Sent: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:42:48 -0800
Subject: Re: Word Automation HELP

> He probably referred to the VBA code staying the same across platforms 
> and therefore being reusable on Windows, for example with OLE 
> automation.
> + G
> 
> On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 05:20 AM, Maximilian Tyrtania wrote:
> 
> >> Another really nice thing is that if there's an error in the VB code 
> >> you send
> >> to Word, Word will drop you into its VBA debugger and show you the 
> >> error,
> >> allow you to step through, edit the source, etc. Also, if you wanted 
> >> to store
> >> your VBA routines as string resources or somewhere else on disk, you 
> >> could
> >> customize and reconfigure your application at runtime, which might be 
> >> useful.
> >>
> >> Excel probably supports something like this, and although I was not 
> >> concerned
> >> about my app running on Windows, I assume this approach would work on 
> >> Windows
> >> as well.
> >
> > I'm not sure what he meant by saying "I assume this approach would 
> > work on
> > Windows as well", though.
> 
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