[Zope] m$ word question

[Oliver Marx]

The VB-script is already based on COM.
So doing COM communication twice is not good coding style in my opinion.

But if you know how to invoke the WORD-object from Python - which should be
a piece of cake
Then you only need the stream of data and voila.

\Oliver

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Toby
>>Dickenson
>>Sent: 22. juli 2002 10:09
>>To: Greg Conway; Zope@Zope. Org
>>Subject: Re: [Zope] m$ word question
>>
>>
>>On Saturday 20 Jul 2002 1:02 am, Greg Conway wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>>Youve already got some code? thats a good start. Use VB to wrap
>>it up in an
>>in-process COM object, and use python's COM support in an
>>external method to
>>call it.
>>
>>The one major gotcha is getting COM initialized correctly. Unless
>>you add some
>>code, this will happen wrong by default. One of these should help:
>>
>>http://www.google.com/search?q=dickenson+coinitializeex
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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