From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-04-13T12:48:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13634] A bit of Win32OLE code for you

Hello all,

I've done a bit of playing with win32ole and thought
I would share a little piece of code with you. 

This opens a file dialog onto your "My Documents"
folder and lets you select a document for MS Word
to print (which it then does).

Cheers,
Hal



require "win32ole"
Dir.chdir "C:\\My Documents"

dlg = WIN32OLE.new("MSComDlg.CommonDialog");
# Set file filter
dlg.filter = "Word documents (*.doc)|*.doc" +
            "|All Files(*.*)|*.*"
dlg.filterIndex = 1
# Set MaxFileSize
dlg.maxFileSize = 128

file = ""
dlg.showOpen()
# Retrieve file + path
file = dlg.fileName
exit if file == ""

# Have a filename now...
word = WIN32OLE.new "Word.Application"
word.visible = false
# Open the desired file
word.documents.open file
word.options.printBackground = false
word.activeDocument.printOut
word.quit