hi folks.
i'm realatively new to lazarus... currently trying to migrate from delphi, and very important thing that i missed here, is the possibility for automating office procedures...
i found some topics here in the forum talking about it, but nothing much helpful, so, i kinda have some doubts about what i previously read here...
someone said that automating ms office is not possible because lazarus is supposed to work as multi-platform, and since ms office is a windows thing, doesnt fit.
...anyway, we have open office... does anyone know any way to automate that? like, the same way we'd do it in delphi using office's vba interface's commands, it was called 'ole automation', manipulating a variant object?
i understand that from delphi 5 on, we have those components that make binding a little bit easier... but since i used delphi 3, (and back then, there were no such components...), i'd do it via code...
(i intend to do it in lazarus via code...) which teorically should be pretty much the same...
unfortunately, it's not...
could someone please show me some material about how to do that in lazarus? is there something i'd have to integrate to the ide?
any help?
THALES VAZ