G'day "Goran" <goran[ at ]bokverket.com>,
From what I have been told, no there isn't. I have seen several tools
work in both manners, without appreciable lag.
Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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Without prejudice
Goran reckoned:
[Quoted Text] >I wrote:
>I am experimenting with an app which is to process large Word doc's, and
>needs the dictionary objects available in Python (and C++).Jezebiel wrote:
>
>Jezebiel answered.
>Don't know anything about Python. You can register a DLL (or any compliant
>library file) in VBA through Tools > References. The functions within the
>DLL can then be called from within VBA. They don't appear directly as
>macros. You need to write wrapper functions (ie a macro that calls the DLL
>function).
>
>Thanks much. I wonder if both the following skeleton code ideas are
>possible, and if there is a large overhead for each access to Word in the
>first one.
>
>'*** First idea
>VBA Wrapper:
>StartDLL(pointertocurrentWordDocument)
>
>Inside DLL:
>Word.getNextWord(pointertocurrentWordDocument) until endofdoc
>// Do whatever processing is needed
>
>
>'*** Second idea
>VBA Wrapper:
>StartDLL(currentWordDocument) ' i.e. throw over the whole document right
>away
>
>Inside DLL:
>currentWordDocument.processWord until endofdoc
>
>Best,
>
>Goran
>
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