Webutil and DDE problem

Question

Hello,
We are running into a problem web-enabling a client-server Forms application. We are using WebUtil for HOST and OLE calls and sending files between client and app-server and it all works really marvelous. But we noticed that the DDE package is not available in WebUtil. Unfortunately for us, we are using DDE calls to interact with MS Word (for example merging template letters with address-data) and MS Excel (filling out template sheets with data).
Can you tell me if DDE will be available in future releases of WebUtil? And, if not, is it (generally) possible to rewrite the DDE-calls to OLE-calls using WebUtil's CLIENT_OLE functions? And what DDE-functionality maps to the corresponding OLE-functionality?
Or, if it's not possible to rewrite DDE to OLE, what are the alternatives? Removing the interaction between web-forms and MS Office is NOT an option ;-)
Thanks in advance,
H. Verschuren

Answer 1

var shell=new ActiveXObject("WScript.shell")
var command=null
var key
try {
key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Office\\11.0\\Word\\InstallRoot\\Path" /* Word 2003 */
command= shell.RegRead(key);
} catch (e) {
try {
key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Office\\9.0\\Word\\InstallRoot\\Path" /* Word 2000 */
command= shell.RegRead(key);
} catch (e) {
try {
key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Office\\8.0\\Word\\InstallRoot\\Path" /* Word 97 */
command= shell.RegRead(key);
} catch (e) {
command="\"" + command + "\\Winword.exe\" ftp://10.100.x.x\\ftpshare\\macros.dot -mMyMacro"
shell.run(command,1,false)
I must learn to monitor threads after I have contributed.