From: Damphyr <damphyr@...>
Date: 2005-09-25T20:39:24+09:00
Subject: Re: A windows ole question - howto start an external application

Nuralanur@aol.com wrote:
> thanks for responding. Unfortunately, I am too inexperienced to
> follow  your guidance (as well as Hal's). I do know however, that I
> can't open the file I want and load the  program with it, because
> that file is just a text file (produced by Ruby , of  course) which
> is then converted to Maple input format as if it were entered 
> interactively into a Maple window.
> 
> My question actually is: once I know I know to open external
> application  XYZ and I know where the executable is and what its
> properties are, how  do I determine what to tell Ruby to open it
> under Windows XP ? Could you give an example with CreateProcess()
> that does this ?
Does Maple have an OLE API?
<some googling later>
Yes! It's called openmapple and there are examples on how to use it in 
C, Java and VB 
(http://www.maplesoft.com/applications/app_center_view.aspx?AID=1179&CID=5&SCID=57) 
They need registration to login so I didn't go further, but I am prety 
sure the VB examples will give you the OLE provider name you need to 
start the app.
Cheers,
V.-

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