OLE Container Control Properties, Methods, and Events

Properties

Events

Methods

Example

The following example adds an OLE Container control to a form, and uses the OleClass and DocumentFile properties to specify Microsoft Excel as the Automation server and a Microsoft Excel worksheet as the file to edit.

The DocumentFile property specifies a worksheet named Book1.xls in the EXCEL directory on drive C. This example will not work properly if the file and directory specified in the DocumentFile property do not exist; it may be necessary to modify the DocumentFile property to specify an existing directory and worksheet file.

* The DoVerb method is used to activate the worksheet for editing.

frmMyForm = CREATEOBJECT('Form')  && Create a Form
frmMyForm.Closable = .F.  && Disable the window pop-up menu

frmMyForm.AddObject('cmdCommand1','cmdMyCmdBtn')  && Add Command button
frmMyForm.AddObject("oleObject","oleExcelObject")  && Add OLE object

frmMyForm.cmdCommand1.Visible=.T.  && Display the "Quit" Command button

frmMyForm.oleObject.Visible=.T.  && Display the OLE control
frmMyForm.oleObject.Height = 50  && OLE control height

frmMyForm.Show  && Display the Form

frmMyForm.oleObject.DoVerb(-1)  && -1 for Edit

READ EVENTS  && Start event processing

DEFINE CLASS oleExcelObject as OLEControl
   OleClass ="Excel.Sheet"  && Server name
   DocumentFile = "C:\EXCEL\BOOK1.XLS"  && This file must exist 
ENDDEFINE

DEFINE CLASS cmdMyCmdBtn AS CommandButton  && Create Command button
   Caption = '\<Quit'  && Caption on the Command button
   Cancel = .T.  && Default Cancel Command button (Esc)
   Left = 125  && Command button column
   Top = 210  && Command button row
   Height = 25  && Command button height

   PROCEDURE Click
      CLEAR EVENTS  && Stop event processing, close form
ENDDEFINE

See Also

OLE Container Control | Adding OLE