Class Name in Fox Pro for Windows

[Guest_imported]

Hi, I'm doing a program in Foxpro for Windows 2.6,yeah, yeah, yau can't believe it, but it's still alive.

well my problem is that i need to call an aplication like power point or excel from my program, i'm using append general command, but this command needs the name of the class of the aplication .

I didn't find the name.

If someone knows, i will aprecciate.

 

[Mike Gagnon]

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I'm not sure if things work the same in Visual FoxPro then in FoxPro 2.6, but you may get a more precise answer in the Foxpro26. forum, unless rgbean (or anyone more familiar with FPW) is willing to take a crack at you problem in this forum.
In VFP6 (or 7.0) I see the help tells me the syntax for appending a general field for an Excel file with the link parameter is:

APPEND GENERAL mygenfield FROM C:\EXCEL\BOOK1.XLS CLASS EXCELCHART

Mike Gagnon

 

[Thanks]

Thanks mgagnon.

 

[rgbean]

See Mike, you didn't need my help! Actually, you really don't need to specify the CLASS unless the file extension is not registered to the given application. So:

APPEND GENERAL mygenfield FROM C:\EXCEL\BOOK1.XLS

will use Excel (as long as it's installed!). On the other hand if you had a speadsheet saved as .TXT, then you'd need:

APPEND GENERAL mygenfield FROM C:\EXCEL\BOOK1.TXT CLASS Excel.Sheet

Rick

Note: For the record, I believe the VFP Help file is wrong - it should read:

APPEND GENERAL mygenfield FROM C:\EXCEL\BOOK1.XLS CLASS EXCEL.CHART

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Rick

See Mike, you didn't need my help!

No, but I haven't touched 2.6 for such a long time and I didn't want suggest code that didn't work in 2.6 without a warning. Mike Gagnon