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robodoc

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Since: Jan 18, 2008
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:00 am
Post subject: Paradox 10 DDE and word 2007 on Vista
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I recently ported an older stable database application paradox 10
runtime to 4 new Vista small business machines. Everything almost
worked fine with a speed exceeding my expectations.
However

ddevar.open("WINWORD", destFile)
ddevar.execute("[ToolsMacro .Name = \"myfont\", .Run, .Show = 0]")

autoexec.bat
PATH C:\;C:\MSOFFICE\OFFICE12 which is where word2007 is
(winword.exe)

This works great on the older XP SP2 machines running word 2003 but
not on Vista running 2007.

Google and micorsoft searches == 0.

I have an extensive library of macros that work very nicely in the XP/
word2003 but not with Vista/word2007. The macros imported and work
from within Word 2007 like they are supposed to.

FYI putting the net dir on something that is not Vista will save you
alot of time unconfiguring the security to allow it to work
correctly.
Ron Kolegraff
Milford, Iowa

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Steven Green

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:55 am
Post subject: Re: Paradox 10 DDE and word 2007 on Vista [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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> Google and micorsoft searches == 0.

paradox community searches is gonna equal zero, too.. you'll get a few
suggestions, and maybe even a solution, but 99% of us won't touch Vista,
because your problem is just one example of the many problems various
long-time developers are having.. with no consensus solutions yet..

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"robodoc" wrote in message

>I recently ported an older stable database application paradox 10
> runtime to 4 new Vista small business machines. Everything almost
> worked fine with a speed exceeding my expectations.
> However
>
> ddevar.open("WINWORD", destFile)
> ddevar.execute("[ToolsMacro .Name = \"myfont\", .Run, .Show = 0]")
>
> autoexec.bat
> PATH C:\;C:\MSOFFICE\OFFICE12 which is where word2007 is
> (winword.exe)
>
> This works great on the older XP SP2 machines running word 2003 but
> not on Vista running 2007.
>
> Google and micorsoft searches == 0.
>
> I have an extensive library of macros that work very nicely in the XP/
> word2003 but not with Vista/word2007. The macros imported and work
> from within Word 2007 like they are supposed to.
>
> FYI putting the net dir on something that is not Vista will save you
> alot of time unconfiguring the security to allow it to work
> correctly.
> Ron Kolegraff
> Milford, Iowa
>
>
>
>

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Sundial Services

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Since: Sep 14, 2004
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:46 pm
Post subject: Re: Paradox 10 DDE and word 2007 on Vista [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Steven Green wrote:
>> Google and micorsoft searches == 0.
>
> paradox community searches is gonna equal zero, too.. you'll get a few
> suggestions, and maybe even a solution, but 99% of us won't touch Vista,
> because your problem is just one example of the many problems various
> long-time developers are having.. with no consensus solutions yet..
>
> --
> Steven Green - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina USA
>
> Diamond Software Group
> http://www.diamondsg.com/main.htm
> Paradox Support & Sales

I think that /all/ of the fileserver-based database systems are "scratching
their heads" at Vista.

Well do I remember that Windows-XP wasn't worth a tinker's-dam either until
SP2, and I predict that Vista will be much the same. I think they
succumbed to pressure to get SOMETHING out, shot a bunch of flaming arrows
into the air, and a whole lot of those arrows simply missed.

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Anders Jonsson

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:00 pm
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> but 99% of us won't touch Vista,
> because your problem is just one example of the many problems various
> long-time developers are having.. with no consensus solutions yet..
>

Not sure about the accuracy of that figure and can we be certain this
particular thing is a Vista - Paradox issue?

IMHO controlling one app from another is always a "risky" thing. Personally
I haven't had much good experience with DDE and I can't recall that many
here in the groups that have used it. Oleauto seems slightly better but
still could be easily broken if one of the application changes.

It is of course possibly that it is the OS that it is causing the problem
but it might as well be the version of Office that is to blame.

Ron, do you have the possibility to install Office 2007 on an XP machine and
see if that works?

Anders
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Jim Hargan

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Since: Feb 12, 2007
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:39 pm
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:06:33 +0100, Anders Jonsson wrote:

> IMHO controlling one app from another is always a "risky" thing. Personally
> I haven't had much good experience with DDE and I can't recall that many
> here in the groups that have used it. Oleauto seems slightly better but
> still could be easily broken if one of the application changes.

Just a thought here. Wouldn't scripting be a more stable way of calling one
application from another? Write a .vbs script for Office that does what you
want, then execute it from within OPAL.

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R Kolegraff

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:43 pm
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Scripting to word 2007 and calling the macros from there will be a good work
around. But will be faster than the time I have wasted trying to get it
to work so far. The fact that Microsoft depricated the DDE function was
reassuring as I was hoping for stability ie no changes. That worked from
wn95 to now. My other workaround may be to call paradox routines running
word 2003 on a winxp computer just to format and print my output the old
way. Jim Hargan wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:06:33 +0100, Anders Jonsson wrote:
>
>> IMHO controlling one app from another is always a "risky" thing. Personally

>> I haven't had much good experience with DDE and I can't recall that many

>> here in the groups that have used it. Oleauto seems slightly better but

>> still could be easily broken if one of the application changes.
>
>Just a thought here. Wouldn't scripting be a more stable way of calling
one
>application from another? Write a .vbs script for Office that does what
you
>want, then execute it from within OPAL.
>
>--
>Jim Hargan
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