Microsoft KB Archive/100444

Knowledge Base

How To Programmatically Embed and Link Part of a File

Article ID: 100444

Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003

---

APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition

---

This article was previously published under Q100444

SUMMARY

The APPEND GENERAL command embeds or links an entire source file. To embed or link part of a file, select the part of the source file you want to embed or link, copy the text to the Windows Clipboard, and in FoxPro choose Paste or Paste Special from the Edit menu.

MORE INFORMATION

The following steps can be used to perform this operation programmatically:

1. Open the server application for the file you want to link or embed in a FoxPro general field.
2. In the server application, open the file you want to link or embed.
3. Select the information that you want to link or embed.
4. Copy the selection to the Windows Clipboard.

5. In FoxPro for Windows, run the following code:

         USE C:\FOXPROW\SAMPLE\OLE\OLETABLE
         APPEND BLANK
         MODIFY GENERAL object NOWAIT
   
         KEYBOARD "{ALT+E}"
   
         x = 1           && Begin delay loop.
         DO WHILE x < 10
           x = x + 1
         ENDDO           && End delay loop.
   
         KEYBOARD "{S} {L}"
                           

   To embed data, the command listed above should be KEYBOARD "{S} {P}".

6. In Visual FoxPro for Windows, use one of the following methods:
   
   

   • To embed data, run the following code:

              CREATE TABLE lnktest (OBJECT G)
              USE lnktest
              APPEND BLANK
              MODIFY GENERAL object NOWAIT
              KEYBOARD "{ALT+E}"
              x = 1           && Begin delay loop.
              DO WHILE x < 10
                x = x + 1
              ENDDO           && End delay loop.
              KEYBOARD "{S} {Alt+P} {Enter}"
                                     

   • To link data, run the following code:

              CREATE TABLE lnktest (OBJECT G)
              USE lnktest
              APPEND BLANK
              MODIFY GENERAL OBJECT NOWAIT
              KEYB '{ALT+E}{S}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{DNARROW}{ENTER}'

NOTE: Be sure that the "object" specified in "MODIFY GENERAL object NOWAIT" is the field name from the table.

The above code links the contents of the Windows Clipboard to a new record. To embed the contents of the Clipboard, change the last KEYBOARD command to KEYBOARD "{S} {P}".

The delay loop is needed to ensure that FoxPro interprets the keystrokes properly. Depending on your CPU's processor speed and the amount of memory available to FoxPro, you many need to make the delay loop longer.

Additional query words: VFoxWin FoxWin 2.50 2.50a 2.50b 2.60 2.60a

Keywords: KB100444

---

Send feedback to Microsoft

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.