OpenEuphoria

Re: Excel

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at ??x.de> Jan 08, 2008
• 1711 views

Greg Haberek wrote:

> Mike777 wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure I need to go the ActiveX route.  My understanding is that you
> > only
> > need/want ActiveX is you want to go outside of the Excel framework.  For
> > example,
> > if you want to write to or read directly from the file system.  If all you
> > want
> > to do is memory bound, I think an Add-in can be compiled as a special form
> > of
> > DLL.  I remember some KB articles on it the last time I looked, which was
> > quite
> > a while ago (I told you it wasn't a rush!).  Now that I've at least posted
> > here,
> > I'll see if I can't find something that lays out the requirements as far as
> > how the DLL has to be built.
> 
> Writing an Office Add-in is tough at best. I wrote one for Outlook in VB 2005
> Express (.NET) and it was rather hairy. Lots of .NET and/or COM code is
> required.
> I think it may be possible with EuCOM, but Microsoft abstracts so many things,
> I wouldn't know where to begin.

Maybe writing a Eu wrapper for DispHelper
   <http://disphelper.sourceforge.net/>
would be a good starting point. Just an idea ...

Regards,
   Juergen

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