beartiger:

It's not really a perl question, as much as it is an OLE question. Generally you first have to understand the object model, then navigate the various containers until you get the item you're looking for. Then you can invoke the methods on that object.

You're wanting to run a function you wrote in Access, so you'll need to find out where the user code is. A quick peek at the access object model documentation lists Application --> CodeData --> AllFunctions --> AccessObject. So I'd suspect that you drill down and get the AccessObject holding Foo(), and invoke the run method on it (assuming it has one). But even if you can find a way to access various objects, the object model may not give you the ability to do certain things.

I don't use Access, nor am I much interested in spelunking through the docs, so I can't be much more help than that.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Win32::OLE -- How do you call a function within the application? by roboticus
in thread Win32::OLE -- How do you call a function within the application? by beartiger

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