Hi,
Can anyone share a sample of how to use the .NET bridge to interact with MS Office applications?
I've got the basics working as described on - http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3773 - http://www.saltypickle.com/squeakDotNet
But as an inexperienced COM developer, I fail to advance much.
Any and all suggestions much appreciated.
Fellow Squeakers,
This must be a difficult one ? Opposed to previous questions put to the Squeak community/individuals, This one triggers very few replies. Having said this, I suspect a few hardcore squeakers are on holiday... [:-/]
Meanwhile, I have made some progress:
(after getting the Squeak.Net bridge basics working)
With the NET.SDK bin\TlbImp.exe, convert X:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICExx\MSWORD.OLB to MSWORD.DLL. (there are more .OLB files in that directory - for the other MS Office apss...)
copied MSWORD.DLL to my squeak dir, and then:
doc _ nil. app _ nil. dotNet := DotNet startNew. dotNet Assembly loadFrom: 'Word.dll'. app _ dotNet ApplicationClass new.
It does create a WINWORD.EXE process (according to the Windows task manager).
(it also hangs my squeak every so often - Semaphore>waitTimeoutMSecs:)
As to how to open an actual document, extract the document properties, and convert the document to text or xml... A few more hours needed...
Unless you have some hints for us?
On 8/30/07, Frederik Vandendriessche f_vdd@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Fellow Squeakers,
This must be a difficult one ? Opposed to previous questions put to the Squeak community/individuals, This one triggers very few replies. Having said this, I suspect a few hardcore squeakers are on holiday... [image: :-/]
Well, personally I have so little time that I can either (a) do work or (b) answer email. So I end up going sometimes weeks without even seeing my email.
I personally didn't plan on saying anything on this one because I know about 0 about this. I know what .Net is and some theoretical things about it, but I have pretty much no experience doing anything with it. Probably some of the folks on this list are in the same boat as me in one or both of these points.
But it does sound really cool that you're working on this. Please don't take the low replies as a sign that no one's interested. If you build it they might come. :)
Hello,
We used bridge to call functions of com sever dll from squeak. We succeeded only when calling very "simple" functions. We failed to get non ASCII characters, decimals when decimal separator in windows is not dot. Bridge can operate in two modes: sockets or direct. Direct mode IMO have problems with releasing windows resources. We saw growth of used handles with every call in Process Explorer from Sysinternals. We had "hangings" when tried to call SOAP method that in turn calls .Net method, but solved this problem.
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