Re: Word scripting?
Re: Word scripting?
- Subject: Re: Word scripting?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:24:46 +1100
On 25/3/03 9:13 AM +1000, Paul Berkowitz, email@hidden, wrote:
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My impression is that trying to squeeze Word's object model into the basic
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Standard and Text Suites is a hopeless task
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But they've already done it! Back in Word 6 or Word 98, or whatever. The
object model has been designed, and fairly well. The _only_ problem is that
it just doesn't work. It's completely misleading.
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and that to implement scripting properly for Word would require a more direct
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match from its actual object model to commands in its scripting suite.
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You're joking, right? Open the existing dictionary, imagine that the
commands that are there work, and tell me what prevents basic text-editing
procedures.
Again: it doesn't work because someone couldn't be bothered making it work.
All the talk of invisible characters and matching object models is at best a
distraction.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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