Recent content by PhilW

you can do a loop with entry(x,var) etc and create a new temp table rec for each iteration. def var v-data as char no-undo init '1,one:2,two:3,three'. def var v-fdata as char no-undo. def var x as int no-undo. do x = 1 to num-entries(v-data,':'): v-fdata = entry(x,v-data,':'). create...

ha tom beat me to it!

put the static data in a delimited txt file and load it up using something like the code below. def stream ip. def var v-reccnt as int no-undo. def var v-data as char no-undo. input stream ip from value(yourfilename here.txt) no-echo. repeat: v-reccnt = v-reccnt + 1. import stream...

hi oli thanks for the interest but yes i have seen that it doesnt deal wilth variants only straight call to OO, im actually thr same Philw as mentioned in Adisneys post, i wrote an interfac for her to trap the OO events as it does do it correctly and so progress cant see them. just trying to get...

try ing to automate OpenOffice(libreOffice) and it requires as a parameter that is an array of type variant! Great !! no such animal in progress. i can create and the array with the necessary info in it as a com handle, but when its sent i get an error from libraoffice of cannot convert data...