Re: Re: Interact with another program (ala VB)?

thanks a bunch, now i just need to find those object definitions...

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[jplindstrom]

For the MS Office suite, the reference can be found here (look at the ToC in the left frame):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbawd10/html/wotocObjectModelApplication.asp

Not too sure there is an OLE interface to the AOL software though, which makes Win32::OLE rather ineffective in this case :) But if you find any docs at some AOL site, please post the URL here so we all get to know.

/J

[MZSanford]

There is no OLE interface to any of the existing versions of the AOL software. I would take a look at jplindstrom's suggestion.

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[John M. Dlugosz]

The object defintions are documented somewhere or another by Microsoft, and the typelib is self-describing and there are programs to browse it. In my experience, it takes both to figure out Office because the docs are incomplete from a technical point, and the defs don't tell you what the function is really for.

[joefission]

You might look at Win32::OLE Browser in the local docs. For me, it is :

file:///C:/Perl/html/lib/site/Win32/OLE/Browser.html

Not that it has tons of documentation for the objects (dunno if it even has the AOL objects), but it's pretty cool. It actually browses objects from the web page.