Re: scripting

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 31/03/2004 12:12 AM, Bill Haneman wrote:

> So - if someone can clearly propose the kinds of services an 
> application would need to expose to such scripting, we can look at how 
> that might be implemented via these various frameworks, and how much 
> existing code would be reusable in the different approaches.

You might want to read or skim over the following article from MSDN 
about scripting Microsoft Office:
   
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dno2kta/html/offaut.asp

If you look at some of the example VB code, you'll see some of the 
things that are possible.  You can essentially do anything to the 
document (including some things that are difficult or impossible to do 
manually).  The article also briefly describes the COM interfaces used 
to expose objects for scripting, which is probably of interest.

James.

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