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Automation: How do I select and copy text from a word document

sammiantha18-Aug-05 7:31

18-Aug-05 7:31

I know how to start Word and open 2 word documents - one existing and one new. I want to copy specific pages from the existing word document and paste them one at a time into the new document. So far I haven't even managed to copy any text of any description, my paste is just pasting whatever happened to be on the clipboard before.

Re: Automation: How do I select and copy text from a word document

David Crow18-Aug-05 7:58

David Crow

18-Aug-05 7:58

sammiantha wrote:
I know how to start Word and open 2 word documents...

Briefly, how are you doing this?

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Re: Automation: How do I select and copy text from a word document

gamitech18-Aug-05 9:50

gamitech

18-Aug-05 9:50

Probably ShellExecute ...!?!?

gabby

Re: Automation: How do I select and copy text from a word document

Garth J Lancaster18-Aug-05 19:20

Garth J Lancaster

18-Aug-05 19:20

Are you doing this in VB/VBA/c++/??

If I were doing it in c++, I'd embed the type library in my program, use the Word Automation objects to create an instance of Word, open a document, then use (sketchy becuase I dont have the details right in front of me) a select/range object to define a range of pages/paragraphs/lines within the document (which may be all), then execute the copy method .. then create a new document, select the 1st line, and execute the paste method ..

it may be the selecting text thats causing you grief - you havnt said you're defining what to copy/how you're marking the text

if you post some code I can take a look over the weekend if I get time (Its Friday afternoon here)

'G'

Re: Automation: How do I select and copy text from a word document

sammiantha20-Aug-05 7:57

sammiantha

20-Aug-05 7:57

Garth J Lancaster wrote:
If I were doing it in c++, I'd embed the type library in my program, use the Word Automation objects to create an instance of Word, open a document, then use (sketchy becuase I dont have the details right in front of me) a select/range object to define a range of pages/paragraphs/lines within the document (which may be all), then execute the copy method .. then create a new document, select the 1st line, and execute the paste method ..

I'm using c++.

Okay, remember that I'm new to this automation - and my code may be awful for someone who actually knows what they are doing.

G, I am with you, up until 'use a select/range object to define a range...' which is where my trouble begins.

Basically I used this KB article to get started:

http://www.kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=178749[^]

(obviously using Word not Excel).

Then I have the following:

COleVariant vtOptional((long)DISP_E_PARAMNOTFOUND,VT_ERROR),<br />
		        vtTrue((short)TRUE),<br />
				vtFalse((short)FALSE);<br />
<br />
	 <br />
	_Application app; <br />
	Documents oDocs;<br />
	_Document oDoc;<br />
	_Document newDoc;<br />
	Paragraphs oParagraphs;<br />
	Selection oSelection;<br />
	COleVariant fileName;<br />
    fileName = "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\MyProjects\\ReadingRecs\\file.doc";<br />
   <br />
         if(!app.CreateDispatch("Word.Application"))<br />
         {<br />
            AfxMessageBox("Couldn't start Word.");<br />
         }<br />
         else<br />
         { AfxMessageBox("Word opened.");<br />
            //Make word Visible and display a message<br />
		  app.SetVisible(TRUE);<br />
<br />
		oDocs = app.GetDocuments();<br />
		oDoc = oDocs.Open(fileName,vtOptional, vtOptional,vtOptional, vtOptional, vtOptional,vtOptional, vtOptional, vtOptional,vtOptional, vtOptional, vtOptional);<br />
	<br />
		fileName = "c:\\files\\temp.doc";<br />
		newDoc = oDocs.Add(fileName,vtOptional, vtOptional, vtOptional);<br />
<br />
		 }

I attempted to use another vaguely relevant KB article: http://www.kbalertz.com/kb_220911.aspx[^] which is where I found the document opening/creating stuff.

Any help anyone could give me would be great.

-Samantha

Re: Automation: How do I select and copy text from a word document

sammiantha20-Aug-05 10:59

sammiantha

20-Aug-05 10:59

Problem solved.

Solution: Stop wondering aimlessly around the classes that word has to offer - create a macro to do the selection and run that macro using Application.Run() from c++ program.

Re: Automation: How do I select and copy text from a word document

Garth J Lancaster20-Aug-05 17:06

Garth J Lancaster

20-Aug-05 17:06

yes, it does seem painful using the classes - your code showed the Selection 'oSelection' object, I was trying to see a way of using it

I went to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q253235[^], downloaded 'offautmn' and started looking at C++ exercise4 and MFC Exercise6, while keeping an eyeball on http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odeomg/html/deovrmicrosoftword2000.asp[^] to follow the object model....YUCK !!

Im glad you found a better way - I was about to dial into the office and look at some old VB code we use to assemble documents on the fly !!!

'G'

Re: Automation: How do I select and copy text from a word document

sammiantha21-Aug-05 21:00

sammiantha

21-Aug-05 21:00

I'd been told by many to make a macro and convert the VB code to c++; that it was easy. That didn't work out for me. Then someone mentioned the Application.Run() function and after figuring out how to use that, I'll be using macros wherever possible from now on! The only problem I can see with that though, is that I won't be able to use the program on just any computer. It won't work unless the right macro is in normal.dot. So my next job will be looking for an easy way to install my macro when the program runs for the first time.

There will also be a problem when I try to use the program on a different version of word - because automation makes you use a different header file depending on the version.

Why I create these projects for myself I don't know...

Re: Automation: How do I select and copy text from a word document

Garth J Lancaster21-Aug-05 21:11

Garth J Lancaster

21-Aug-05 21:11

Hey - its a challenge, that 1) you didnt give up on and 2) you're willing to keep trying at - so dont knock yourself, and give yourself some credit - you didnt find the answer the first time but you got it a different way, maybe sometime later you'll be browsing some code and it'll click - your tenacity puts you ahead of lots of people who would have chucked it in the 'too hard' basket

Do when/if you get time download the samples etc and have a look through them - you might just spot the missing link ..

'G'

converting ebcdic to ascii

Camron18-Aug-05 7:30

Camron

18-Aug-05 7:30

I need a program to convert my text from ebcdic to ascii. Is there any tutorial or code out there that will help me do this?

Re: converting ebcdic to ascii

BlackDice18-Aug-05 7:38

BlackDice

18-Aug-05 7:38

here's a function I used before: However, mine returns it as a string, so you'll have to do any other conversion on it yourself

CString EBCDICToDecimal(CString strValue)
{
        CString chr;
        char cEnd;
        int nLength = strValue.GetLength();
        cEnd = strValue[nLength - 1];
        chr = "";
        if((cEnd >= 65) && (cEnd <= 73)) cEnd -= 16;
        if(cEnd == 123) cEnd = 48;
        if(cEnd == 125)
        {
                chr = "-";
                cEnd = 48;
        }
        if((cEnd >= 74) && (cEnd <= 82))
        {
                chr = "-";
                cEnd -= 25;
        }
        strValue = chr + strValue.Left(strValue.GetLength() - 1) + cEnd;
        return strValue;
}

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Re: converting ebcdic to ascii

David Crow18-Aug-05 7:51

David Crow

18-Aug-05 7:51

See if this helps. In addition, there's these two:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216399/EN-US/

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q235856

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identifying disk drives and media type

Chintoo72318-Aug-05 7:14

Chintoo723

18-Aug-05 7:14

hi,
FindFirstFile API can list the files/folders in a given folder, but I need to find out what all drives are available on the system(like C:, D:, etc) and what are the media types (like harddrive, cd-drive, usb-drive, etc). Does any one have some idea to figure this out using windows file APIs?
Thanks
~f

Re: identifying disk drives and media type

Ravi Bhavnani18-Aug-05 7:35

Ravi Bhavnani

18-Aug-05 7:35

See GetDriveType()[^].

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Re: identifying disk drives and media type

Chintoo72318-Aug-05 7:56

Chintoo723

18-Aug-05 7:56

Thanks for that link. GetDriveType takes the drive letter as part of the argument, and I dont know how to obtain the list of drive letters available. I looked at the volume management functions, ([^]) but this example doesnt give the drive letter information. What is a volume, and what are mount points, if I may ask?

Thanks
~f

Re: identifying disk drives and media type

Ravi Bhavnani18-Aug-05 8:13

Ravi Bhavnani

18-Aug-05 8:13

Flace wrote:
how to obtain the list of drive letters available.

See GetLogicalDriveStrings()[^].

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Re: identifying disk drives and media type

Chintoo72318-Aug-05 8:44

Chintoo723

18-Aug-05 8:44

Thanks.

OpenGL

Dennis L18-Aug-05 7:10

Dennis L

18-Aug-05 7:10

Hi everybody!

I'm trying to find an answer on how to render a text in OpenGL and having it always in front of every object independingly of its z value. The text is placed using glRasterPos3d()..
(I don't want to use glOrtho() because I want the text to be moved in relationship with the camera)

Thanks for every answear!

Re: OpenGL

johnny18218-Aug-05 12:32

johnny182

18-Aug-05 12:32

You can disable the z-buffer by calling glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST), render the text, and re-enable z-buffer.

Help with SetItemData/GetItemData of CTreeCtrl

johnnyXP18-Aug-05 6:43

johnnyXP

18-Aug-05 6:43

I have a dialog based class named CJKDlg, with a tree control with name treeTracks.
In the JKDlg.h i have defined the following structure:

struct _itemData
{
	CString strData;
};

In the OK click event i have the following handler:

void CJKDlg::OnBnClickedOk()
{
	CStdioFile stdFile;
	CString str;
	
	if(! stdFile.Open("test.txt", CFile::modeRead))
	{
		AfxMessageBox("Cannot find initialization file", MB_OK, MB_ICONSTOP);
		return;
	}

	TVINSERTSTRUCT tvInsert;
	tvInsert.hParent = NULL;
	tvInsert.hInsertAfter = NULL;
	tvInsert.item.mask = TVIF_TEXT;

	HTREEITEM hAlbum, hItem;
	char ch;
	CString albumTitle, trackTitle, trackPath;
	_itemData* pItemData = new _itemData();

	while(stdFile.ReadString(str))
	{
		ch = str.GetAt(0);
		if(ch=='$')
		{
			albumTitle = str.Right(str.GetLength()-1);
			//TRACE1("%s\n", albumTitle);
			tvInsert.item.pszText = albumTitle.GetBuffer(albumTitle.GetLength());
			hAlbum = m_treeTracks.InsertItem(&tvInsert);
			pItemData->strData = "OK";
			m_treeTracks.SetItemData(hAlbum, DWORD(pItemData));
		}
	}

	delete pItemData;

}

In last a double-click event handler for the tree control:

void CJKDlg::OnNMDblclkTreeTracks(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult)
{
	HTREEITEM hItem = m_treeTracks.GetSelectedItem();
	ASSERT(hItem);
	_itemData* pItemData  = new _itemData();
	pItemData = (_itemData *)m_treeTracks.GetItemData(hItem); 
	
	if(pItemData)
	{
             TRACE1("%s\n", pItemData->strData);
	}
	
	delete pItemData;
	*pResult = 0;
}

The TRACE macro dose not display the "OK" string. Instead in the output window a white space displayed.
Can anyone help me with this please?

Re: Help with SetItemData/GetItemData of CTreeCtrl

David Crow18-Aug-05 7:57

David Crow

18-Aug-05 7:57

johnnyXP wrote:
m_treeTracks.SetItemData(hAlbum, DWORD(pItemData));

You are inserting the same pItemData for each node in the tree. Is that intentional?

johnnyXP wrote:
delete pItemData;

This is why nothing shows up.

johnnyXP wrote:
_itemData* pItemData = new _itemData();

This statement is unnecessary in OnNMDblclkTreeTracks(). Memory was allocated in OnBnClickedOk().

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Re: Help with SetItemData/GetItemData of CTreeCtrl

Anonymous18-Aug-05 9:11

Anonymous

18-Aug-05 9:11

Daim you are right! The data is not the same for each node. I do that just to simplify the question and the code.
Thanks a lot for your time.

Printing my Custom Control

AnTri18-Aug-05 5:55

AnTri

18-Aug-05 5:55

Hey,

i build a nice custom control (::from CWnd). It works perfect on dialogs but can't print it.
I tried to create the control in my CView::OnPrint function --> Success.
But I never come to my OnPaint function. How can I print my control? Do I have to implement a special function with a parameter-handle to my printing DC?

draw in internet explorer

Member 203712118-Aug-05 5:46

Member 2037121

18-Aug-05 5:46

Hi ,

I would like to draw opengl inside the frame of a simple html page running through IE or Firefox.
I already can draw opengl on windows Desktop but i do not know how to draw on internet directly.
please post some code to achieve that.
thanks.

Checking if region only contains background color

skonopa18-Aug-05 4:46

skonopa

18-Aug-05 4:46

If given a region (could be CRgn or even just an area described by a CRect), is there a way to check if that region only contains background color (nothing really drawn in there, i.e., no characters, dots, etc)? The simplist way I could think is looping through the region and getting each pixel via the CDC::GetPixel () method, and checking it against the background color. I am basically looking for a way to determine if something is drawn in a specific area.

I was hoping if there was a more "elegant" solution. Searches both here and on the 'Net as a whole seemed to turn up nothing regarding this.

Thanks
Steven Konopa

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