Can you call MS Word or Excel?

[AussiePup]

Hi,

I just downloaded PureBasic for evaluation. The one thing that I saw in PowerBasic that I can't find in PureBasic is the ability to call Word or Excel.

Question 1. Is there a way to do this in PureBasic?

Question 2. I'm an expert Clipper programmer for many years but haven't done any basic since my Apple II days. Maybe an unfair question, but other than price, what would you say are the main reasons to purchase PureBasic over PowerBasic?

Thanks for your help,

Martin

[Num3]

Question 1. Is there a way to do this in PureBasic?

It depends on what you want to do.
If you want to open word inside a pure window that is not possible yet.
If you want to open a word document (using word) that is possible.

Question 2. I'm an expert Clipper programmer for many years but haven't done any basic since my Apple II days. Maybe an unfair question, but other than price, what would you say are the main reasons to purchase PureBasic over PowerBasic?

Purebasic is and will be growing for the next few years.
Pure has an advantage, inline assembler and api functions included (those that aren't can be added).

This means you can program in assembler and use direct API calls besides the own set of purebasic commands.

Also updates are forever free and your licence enables you to install your copy of Pure in has many machines has you want.

[AussiePup]

Thanks for the speedy reply Num3. Do you mean that I could cause Word to appear with a document that I specify in another window? If so, could you tell me how this would be done?

[Num3]

For now, with pure that is not yet possible, but i guess fred or some other user will integrate it in the near future.

For more info on Pure check these links:

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[ricardo]

1.- I release some tool for PB that let you handle word, excel, etc. (most COM or Activex) from within purebasic easily.

Download:
http://www.getafile.com/cgi-bin/merlot/ ... eX2Dll.zip

Forum:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ActiveX2Dll

2.- Yes, i have both PBs and im sure that if i need to choose only one i choose PureBasic. In fact i don't use PowerBasic anymore (and im trying to abandon VB at all)