Re: Applescript and VBA
Re: Applescript and VBA
- Subject: Re: Applescript and VBA
- From: Dale Gillard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:13:15 +1100
Hi Ric
About 2 years ago I heard that MS was now licensing VBA to Windows
developers for use in their own programs. For example, I believe that
Corel use it in their office suite, Micrografx use it in some of their
programs, I think MYOB does too, and Visio did too before they were
bought by M$. So it seems that Adobe must have licensed VBA too and
incorporated it into inDesign and Illustrator.
Dale
On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 12:29 PM, Ric Phillips wrote:
Subject: Re: Applescript and VBA
From: Ric Phillips <email@hidden>
To: Apple Script <email@hidden>
On 7/1/02 10:06 AM, "Eric Schult" <email@hidden> wrote:
I'm specifically interested in folks who have used VBA to script
InDesign or
Illustrator, and can compare the task to doing the same with AS. Also,
I'm
interested in finding out which apps used in Desktop Publishing are
scriptable with VBA. Quark? I think not, but are they working on it,
does
anyone know?
I assume VBA here stands for Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications -
which is the Visual Basic Programming Language + Office objects and
methods
used to automate MS Office components and applications. I hadn't heard
that
the domain of VBA had been extended beyond MS products? - (though
stranger
things happen in Queensland.) Or is there an interface to Apple Events
in
VBA? (Most of my VBA work has been done in windows environments. And in
AppleScript I usually go the other way - calling VBA from inside an
apple
script.) If there is a VBA API for Adobe products I would be very
interested
in it.
Ric Phillips
Faculty Web Coordinator
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Latrobe University