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Terry Back to top Mike Shkolnik Guest Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 5:12 am    Post subject: Re: TOleContainer and TWordApplication When you'll load your Word-document, you may use yourOLEContainer.OleObject - this is an instance for WordApplication -- With best regards, Mike Shkolnik E-mail: [email]mshkolnik (AT) scalabium (DOT) com[/email] WEB: http://www.scalabium.com "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote Quote: I have an TOleContainer which I have fired up with Word in it and I would like to hook a TWordApplication to the copy of Word that is running in the TOleContainer. Is there a way to do this, as all the ways I try throw exceptions saying that I can't control Word as it is running in another application or throws access violations. Thanks in advance. Terry Back to top Terry Watts Guest Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 5:22 am    Post subject: Re: TOleContainer and TWordApplication Does this mean I cant't hook the TWordApplication to it? Or if it mean I can, how do I hook them together? Regards Terry. "Mike Shkolnik" <mshkolnik2002 (AT) ukr (DOT) net> wrote Quote: When you'll load your Word-document, you may use yourOLEContainer.OleObject - this is an instance for WordApplication -- With best regards, Mike Shkolnik E-mail: [email]mshkolnik (AT) scalabium (DOT) com[/email] WEB: http://www.scalabium.com "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote in message news:414a6f4b (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... I have an TOleContainer which I have fired up with Word in it and I would like to hook a TWordApplication to the copy of Word that is running in the TOleContainer. Is there a way to do this, as all the ways I try throw exceptions saying that I can't control Word as it is running in another application or throws access violations. Thanks in advance. Terry Back to top Terry Watts Guest Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 5:30 am    Post subject: Re: TOleContainer and TWordApplication I just found TWordApplication as a member of OleObject. Thanks Terry. "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote Quote: Does this mean I cant't hook the TWordApplication to it? Or if it mean I can, how do I hook them together? Regards Terry. "Mike Shkolnik" <mshkolnik2002 (AT) ukr (DOT) net> wrote in message news:414a730a (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... When you'll load your Word-document, you may use yourOLEContainer.OleObject - this is an instance for WordApplication -- With best regards, Mike Shkolnik E-mail: [email]mshkolnik (AT) scalabium (DOT) com[/email] WEB: http://www.scalabium.com "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote in message news:414a6f4b (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... I have an TOleContainer which I have fired up with Word in it and I would like to hook a TWordApplication to the copy of Word that is running in the TOleContainer. Is there a way to do this, as all the ways I try throw exceptions saying that I can't control Word as it is running in another application or throws access violations. Thanks in advance. Terry Back to top Terry Watts Guest Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 5:43 am    Post subject: Re: TOleContainer and TWordApplication It disappeared. Breifly the Code Insight showed it as a member of OleObject but now it doesn't, so, I once again don't know how to use it. Regards Terry. "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote Quote: I just found TWordApplication as a member of OleObject. Thanks Terry. "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote in message news:414a74a8 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Does this mean I cant't hook the TWordApplication to it? Or if it mean I can, how do I hook them together? Regards Terry. "Mike Shkolnik" <mshkolnik2002 (AT) ukr (DOT) net> wrote in message news:414a730a (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... When you'll load your Word-document, you may use yourOLEContainer.OleObject - this is an instance for WordApplication -- With best regards, Mike Shkolnik E-mail: [email]mshkolnik (AT) scalabium (DOT) com[/email] WEB: http://www.scalabium.com "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote in message news:414a6f4b (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... I have an TOleContainer which I have fired up with Word in it and I would like to hook a TWordApplication to the copy of Word that is running in the TOleContainer. Is there a way to do this, as all the ways I try throw exceptions saying that I can't control Word as it is running in another application or throws access violations. Thanks in advance. Terry Back to top Mike Shkolnik Guest Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:07 am    Post subject: Re: TOleContainer and TWordApplication Just call methods as for WordApplication (late binding): yourTOLEContainer.OLEObject.ActiveDocument.Range.InsertAfter('new inserted text'); -- With best regards, Mike Shkolnik EMail: [email]mshkolnik (AT) scalabium (DOT) com[/email] http://www.scalabium.com "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote Quote: It disappeared. Breifly the Code Insight showed it as a member of OleObject but now it doesn't, so, I once again don't know how to use it. Regards Terry. "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote in message news:414a7692 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... I just found TWordApplication as a member of OleObject. Thanks Terry. "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote in message news:414a74a8 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Does this mean I cant't hook the TWordApplication to it? Or if it mean I can, how do I hook them together? Regards Terry. "Mike Shkolnik" <mshkolnik2002 (AT) ukr (DOT) net> wrote in message news:414a730a (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... When you'll load your Word-document, you may use yourOLEContainer.OleObject - this is an instance for WordApplication -- With best regards, Mike Shkolnik E-mail: [email]mshkolnik (AT) scalabium (DOT) com[/email] WEB: http://www.scalabium.com "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote in message news:414a6f4b (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... I have an TOleContainer which I have fired up with Word in it and I would like to hook a TWordApplication to the copy of Word that is running in the TOleContainer. Is there a way to do this, as all the ways I try throw exceptions saying that I can't control Word as it is running in another application or throws access violations. Thanks in advance. Terry Back to top Terry Watts Guest Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:09 pm    Post subject: Re: TOleContainer and TWordApplication If I try this I get an exception : "Method ActiveDocument not supported by automation object ". As this is the first time I have tried to automate anything I would really prefer to uses the TWordApplication as the Code Insight gives me an idea of what I can and can't do with the Word object, but with using a variant I'm flying blind. What I would like to do is to embed the word application within my own application and have it display in and area within my own form, which I can do with TOleContainer but can't find a way to do with TWordApplication. Regards Terry "Mike Shkolnik" <mshkolnik2002 (AT) ukr (DOT) net> wrote Quote: Just call methods as for WordApplication (late binding): yourTOLEContainer.OLEObject.ActiveDocument.Range.InsertAfter('new inserted text'); -- With best regards, Mike Shkolnik EMail: [email]mshkolnik (AT) scalabium (DOT) com[/email] http://www.scalabium.com "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote in message news:414a798d (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... It disappeared. Breifly the Code Insight showed it as a member of OleObject but now it doesn't, so, I once again don't know how to use it. Regards Terry. "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote in message news:414a7692 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... I just found TWordApplication as a member of OleObject. Thanks Terry. "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote in message news:414a74a8 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Does this mean I cant't hook the TWordApplication to it? Or if it mean I can, how do I hook them together? Regards Terry. "Mike Shkolnik" <mshkolnik2002 (AT) ukr (DOT) net> wrote in message news:414a730a (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... When you'll load your Word-document, you may use yourOLEContainer.OleObject - this is an instance for WordApplication -- With best regards, Mike Shkolnik E-mail: [email]mshkolnik (AT) scalabium (DOT) com[/email] WEB: http://www.scalabium.com "Terry Watts" <TerryWatts (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote in message news:414a6f4b (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... I have an TOleContainer which I have fired up with Word in it and I would like to hook a TWordApplication to the copy of Word that is running in the TOleContainer. Is there a way to do this, as all the ways I try throw exceptions saying that I can't control Word as it is running in another application or throws access violations. Thanks in advance. Terry Back to top Deborah Pate (TeamB) Guest Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 8:46 am    Post subject: Re: TOleContainer and TWordApplication < If I try this I get an exception : "Method ActiveDocument not supported by automation object ". Quote: Because the object in a container is a Document, not the Word Application object. So you never have to use the ActiveDocument method - you've already got the active document. If you want to get at the application you use the Document's Application property. < As this is the first time I have tried to automate anything I would really prefer to uses the TWordApplication as the Code Insight gives me an idea of what I can and can't do with the Word object, but with using a variant I'm flying blind. Quote: You can use interfaces rather than variants to achieve this. uses Word2000; // or whichever version you want to use var Doc: _Document; Word: _Application; ... Doc := IDispatch(OleContainer1.OleObject) as _Document; Word := Doc.Application; Using interfaces means you get compile-time checking and Code Insight help, without having two components fighting over the same instance of Word. -- Deborah Pate (TeamB) http://delphi-jedi.org TeamB don't see posts sent via Google or ISPs Use the real Borland server: newsgroups.borland.com http://www.borland.com/newsgroups/genl_faqs.html Back to top Terry Watts Guest Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:03 pm    Post subject: Re: TOleContainer and TWordApplication This works a treat but this leads me to some other questions about automating Word. Because I have a Word document in the container rather than Word itself there seems to be no way to load an existing document into it. If I try using the Word interface rather than the Documnet interface to open the existing file I get the exception "Method or Property is unavailable as the document is in another application.". So I gess my question is how does one open an existing document into the Word document in the OleContainer? Thanks Terry. "Deborah Pate (TeamB)" <d.pate (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.not-this-bit.uk> wrote in message news:VA.00001efa.0040670f (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.not-this-bit.uk... Quote: Terry Watts: If I try this I get an exception : "Method ActiveDocument not supported by automation object ". Because the object in a container is a Document, not the Word Application object. So you never have to use the ActiveDocument method - you've already got the active document. If you want to get at the application you use the Document's Application property. Terry: As this is the first time I have tried to automate anything I would really prefer to uses the TWordApplication as the Code Insight gives me an idea of what I can and can't do with the Word object, but with using a variant I'm flying blind. You can use interfaces rather than variants to achieve this. uses Word2000; // or whichever version you want to use var Doc: _Document; Word: _Application; .. Doc := IDispatch(OleContainer1.OleObject) as _Document; Word := Doc.Application; Using interfaces means you get compile-time checking and Code Insight help, without having two components fighting over the same instance of Word. -- Deborah Pate (TeamB) http://delphi-jedi.org TeamB don't see posts sent via Google or ISPs Use the real Borland server: newsgroups.borland.com http://www.borland.com/newsgroups/genl_faqs.html Back to top Deborah Pate (TeamB) Guest Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:45 pm    Post subject: Re: TOleContainer and TWordApplication < So I gess my question is how does one open an existing document into the Word document in the OleContainer? Quote: Since the TOleContainer is hosting the document, it needs to be responsible for opening, saving, and closing it, so you call its methods for those things, not Word's: e.g. CreateObjectFromFile and SaveAsDocument. -- Deborah Pate (TeamB) http://delphi-jedi.org TeamB don't see posts sent via Google or ISPs Use the real Borland server: newsgroups.borland.com http://www.borland.com/newsgroups/genl_faqs.html Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi OLE Automation All times are GMT Page 1 of 1   Jump to: Select a forum C++ Builder Newsgroups----------------C++ BuilderC++ Builder (ActiveX)C++ Builder (Announcements)C++ Builder (Command Line Tools)C++ Builder DatabasesC++ Builder Databases (ADO)C++ Builder Databases (Desktop)C++ Builder Databases (InterBase Express)C++ Builder Databases (Multi-Tier)C++ Builder Databases (SQL Servers)C++ Builder (Graphics)C++ Builder (IDE)C++ Builder (Internet)C++ Builder (Internet Socket)C++ Builder (Internet Web)C++ Builder (Jobs)C++ Builder (Language)C++ Builder (Language C++)C++ Builder (Compatibility with MFC)C++ Builder (Native API)C++ Builder (Non-Technical)C++ Builder (Students)C++ Builder (Third Party Tools)C++ Builder (Upgrade)C++ Builder (VCL)C++ Builder (VCL Components Usage)C++ Builder (VCL Components Development)C++ Builder (VCL Usage)C++ Builder (WinAPI)C++ Builder Installation Delphi Newsgroups----------------Delphi (General)Delphi ActiveX Controls UsageDelphi ActiveX Controls DevelopmentDelphi As400Delphi DatabasesDelphi Databases (ADO)Delphi Databases (dbExpress)Delphi Databases (Desktop)Delphi Databases (InterBase Express)Delphi Databases (Multi-Tier)Delphi Databases (SQL Servers)Delphi DeploymentDelphi GraphicsDelphi IDEDelphi InternationalizationDelphi InternetDelphi Internet Isapi-WebBrokerDelphi Internet WebSnapDelphi Internet WinsockDelphi JobsDelphi Language BASMDelphi Language ObjectPascalDelphi Model Driven Architecture (General)Delphi Model Driven Architecture (Third Party)Delphi MultimediaDelphi Native APIDelphi Non-TechnicalDelphi ObjectPascalDelphi OLE AutomationDelphi OO designDelphi OpenToolsAPIDelphi Reporting-ChartingDelphi RTLDelphi StudentsDelphi TeamSourceDelphi Thirdparty ToolsDelphi Thirdparty Tools (General)Delphi Thirdparty Tools (IntraWeb)Delphi Thirdparty Tools (RaveReports)Delphi UpgradeDelphi VCLDelphi VCL ComponentsDelphi VCL Components UsingDelphi VCL Components WritingDelphi WebServices SOAPDelphi WinAPIDelphi XMLDelphi Installationcomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.misccomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.usagecomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.writingcomp.lang.pascal.delphi.databasescomp.lang.pascal.delphi.misccomp.sources.delphi JBuilder Newsgroups----------------JBuilderJBuilder AnnouncementsJBuilder Applet IssuesJBuilder As400JBuilder CompilerJBuilder CORBA/RMIJBuilder DatabasesJBuilder DB SwingJBuilder DebuggerJBuilder DeploymentJBuilder DocumentationJBuilder EnterpriseJBuilder HandheldJBuilder IDEJBuilder JavaJBuilder JavaAPIJBuilder Java LanguageJBuilder Java SwingJBuilder Java BeansJBuilder Java Beans UsageJBuilder Java Beans DevelopmentJBuilder JBCLJBuilder JDataStoreJBuilder JobsJBuilder LinuxJBuilder MacintoshJBuilder & MobileSetJBuilder MultiLingual AppsJBuilder Non-TechnicalJBuilder OpenToolsJBuilder Servlets (JSP)JBuilder StudentsJBuilder Team DevelopmentJBuilder Thirdparty ToolsJBuilder UpgradeJBuilder Installation InterBase Newsgroups----------------InterBaseInterBase Bug DiscussionInterBase GeneralInterBase IBConsoleInterBase OpenSourceInterBase ReplicationInterBase SQLInterBase ThirdpartyInterBase Installation Miscellaneous Borland Newsgroups----------------AppCenterAppServerEnteraVisiBroker  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group SEO toolkit © 2004-2006 webmedic.