On Friday 19 July 2002 20:02, Greg Conway wrote:
Hi all,
Is it possible to run M$ Word from within Zope? I've done a bit of searching but found suprisingly little, I would have thought this was something lots of people wanted to do?
Only in Windows using COM.
Anyway, what I want to do exactly is call Word with a stream of data, to perform a Mail Merge. I'm converting some script that already runs in Visual Basic, is it possible to get a Visual Basic script plug-in for Zope? Sorry if that sounds a little crazy, I'm still learning!
Well, but be aware that COM was not really written for a server-client architecture. When I wrote the SilvaXML2DOC converter, we found that it would really hard to incorporate the code directly into a Zioe environment.