Ping the VB (or something) gurus.

I've downloaded the source code for a small freebie ActiveX thingy
which does a mailmerge in Word using an XML file. It uses a form to let
you enter the XML & .dot file names & locations, & a button to make it
work its magic. It then creates a separate Word doccie for each record
in the XML.

I need it modified to take the filenames as command line input
parameters & run automatically without opening the form. Ideally I'd
like a third input parameter to give the option of merging to a single
document with a separate page for each record, like a traditional merge
in Word. I.e. I want to be able to do:

xml2word.exe C:\data\mysourcexml.xml C:\templates\mysourcetemplate.dot
single|multi

& it go off & do its stuff without any further input.

Anyone fancy having a look to see if it's possible?

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Can't see why not bearing in mind this if you are definitely talking VB:

"Unlike C and C++, where Command Line Arguments are passed as an array
of values to the executable program, in Visual Basic whatever follows
the name of the executable program in the Run Window is passed as a
single String value. What that means is that it's possible to pass more
than one Command Line Argument, but 'parsing' (separating) the arguments
is your responsibility---Visual Basic will not do it for you."

Civica do something similar with their 'Wordtool', but use .ini and .cfg
files read at runtime to stipulate the parameters.




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Krusty wrote:

It's possible.

 

Is that the sound of you volunteering?

A couple of the files have .vbp & .vbw extensions, so I presume so.


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It's possible, but I'm not volunteering. I haven't touched VB in
years, thank ****.

Seeing as you have an ActiveX control, I think that the best bet would
be to create a new stand-alone app that takes the command line
parameters and then passes those to the ActiveX control to use itself.

 

Not really, though I have played about a bit with VB 2008 Express
edition.

I much prefer to drive OLE apps like Word from VFP, or if push really
comes to shove crank up a VBA 'macro'.

Still not volunteering, but as others have said, it's certainly
possible.

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Buggroff!

I am strictly a C++ (and to a lesser extent C#) person. I've never
used Delphi - Borland's C++ class library was bad enough.

 

Load of new-fangled shit. Classes are just structs with ideas above
their station.

 

An ex-Delphi/Borland C++ monkey writes:

Worse than MFC, eh?

 

By orders of magnitude.

IMO, of course. )

 

Apart from the Buggroff! bit, I thought it more of a straight bat, but
hey-ho...

 

Emailed - with a couple of zips attached so let me know if you block
them.

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Done.

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'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

It's probably one of our ISPs blocking it due to the zips. I've renamed
the zips to .jpg & tried again to viaopus.

If that doesn't work, I'm:
preston
dot
kemp
gmail.com

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'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

Already? Blimey, that was quick!

Weeellll, there's a shitload of plastering to do, & some tiling, &
electrics, & foundations to be dug, &... etc. Or you could just email
it back, & I'll try to break it!

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'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

Right on!

 

<Contemplates quantity of popcorn required>

Integer overflow.

 

I'll see your integer overflow and raise you a division by zero error.

 

And you'd both be wrong - it works perfectly!

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'02 MV Senna (for sale) '96 Tiger (for sale)
'79 Fantic Hiro 250 (for sale) '81 Corvette (for sale)

 

See, Rope's a proper good IT consultant!