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- From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
- Subject: Re: Can Hypercard use Excel's databases?
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <jpugh-091192234504@kip2-56.apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:47:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.145241.4592@kth.se>
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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- In article <1992Nov6.145241.4592@kth.se>, d89-pja@zwart.nada.kth.se (Pasi
- Jakkola) wrote:
- >
- >
- > Is it possible to use Excel's data in Hypercard?
- >
- > I have quite many files, which contain Excel's data and I would
- > like to use them in Hypercard. I know, that I can save the file
- > in 'text format' in Excel and then read the file as a text file
- > in Hypercard, but is there any other (better?) way to do this
- > task? In Windows, for example, you can use also DDE. Is there
- > something similar in Mac?
-
- You can communicate with Excel from Hypercard via AppleEvents, given that
- you
- use Ed Lai's SendAE XCMDs. These allow you to build object specifiers that
- Excel will understand. It isn't trivial and you need Excel running to do
- anything. Personally I would write an Excel macro to translate and dump
- the files to text and then another to read them into Hypercard. I think
- this would be simpler, given the state of Hypercard's AE support, although
- Ed's XCMDs do work and would allow you to do a bunch of really cool stuff.
- They aren't for the weak of will though.
-
- Jon
-