Have you used the ActiveState OLE Browser? I've had to use Win32::OLE to automate some Word events en masse, but nothing this complicated (plus I cheated..I used a word template file and navigated around it using bookmarks), and when trying to RTFM on my own, I decided to use the browser. I thought it was overall pretty lousy, there was absolutely no documentation for the libraries, just class/method/property names. Are these tools much better? If so, I think it would be very useful to other monks using Win32.
As for the original question, I'd agree..poke around the OLE library, also perhaps the Win32::API documentation, it would be a whole lot messier, but if you truly, absolutely, positively need it done, it may be the only way. | [reply] |
Thank you for help,
Actually event processing is quite okay in Win32::OLE module, although it is in alpha state. (as perldoc Win32::OLE says), so I was dreaming about a possibility to send not only standard event, but some kind of my own notification.
One way exists to solve my task for sure, but it is too complicated, and I am afraid of implementing it.
Idea is to use PerlScript engine from MS-Word to communicate my initial script via, say, "PostThreadMessage" or alike. (PerlScript from ActiveState was mentioned somewhere at this site)
but I really afraid of such complications: there should be too much conditions to be met in order to run a program, one of them - perl-5.8.0 will not be able to do that currently, as it is not PerlScript-aware, AFAIK.
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