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Word VB & AS- yes
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Word VB & AS- yes


  • Subject: Word VB & AS- yes
  • From: Craig Sutherland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 07:11:20 -0600

At 8:08 PM -0800 3/14/01, Patrick Wynne wrote:
>Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Back in the main VB language Reference read up on
>> the MacScript method -it's the way you call AppleScript within
>> VB the same way you call VB within AppleScript - very nifty. You
>> can put an entire AppleScript in quotes or in a variable, or
>> call an applet by its file path, just as in AppleScript you can
>> put a whole VB script in quotes or else call an installed macro.
>> In both cases you have to remember to convert line endings, but
>> it means the two languages can talk back and forth to each
>> other.)
>
>Has anyone actually gotten this to work? I know that I've tried many,
>many times over the last year or so and every time I get an error when
>I try to use the MacScript command, whether with script statements or
>trying to call an applet. I even asked on this very list if anyone had
>gotten it to work and received one negative reply (and no positive
>ones).
>
>I'd really like to know how to make this work. Any help?
->snip<-

Patrick-

Yes, this can and does work. Will be glad to help you.

Craig Sutherland


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