Description

Calls the MethodName method of the OLE object.

Syntax

ReturnValue = OleCallMethod(object, MethodName[, Arg1, Arg2, ...])

Parameters

The function has the following parameters:

ParameterDescription
objectThe Ole object.
methodnameThe name of the method to call.
Arg1 .. argNAny arguments necessary to the call of the method.

Remarks

The OleCreateInstance function is used to create instances of an OLE Object for use in Basic+ scripts and must be issued prior to calling the OleCallMethod.

See also

OleCreateInstance function, OleGetProperty function, OlePutProperty subroutine, OleStatus function

Example

subroutine Test_OLE_Basic_PDF(void)
declare subroutine OlePutProperty, Msg
declare function OleCreateInstance, OleGetProperty, OleCallMethod, OleStatus
 
// Create the Ole Object for VSPrinter
 
oleObj = OleCreateInstance('VSPRINTER7.VSPRINTER.1')
status = OleStatus()
if status then
   msg(@window,'OLE Error code: ':status)
   return
end
 
// Get the AbortCaption property of the VSPrinter Print window
 
property1 = OleGetProperty(oleObj, 'AbortCaption')
status = OleStatus()
if status then
   msg(@window,'OLE Error code: ':status)
end
 
// Change the AbortCaption property of the VSPrinter Print window
 
OlePutProperty(oleObj, 'AbortCaption', 'Testing...')
status = OleStatus()
if status then
   msg(@window,'OLE Error code: ':status)
end
 
// Get the AbortCaption property of the VSPrinter Print window after it has been changed
 
property2 = OleGetProperty(oleObj, 'AbortCaption')
status = OleStatus()
if status then
   msg(@window,'OLE Error code: ':status)
end
 
// Calls the STARTDOC method of the ole object to begin printing the document.
 
ReturnValue = OleCallMethod(oleObj, "STARTDOC")
status = OleStatus()
if status then
  msg(@window,'OLE Error code: ':status)
end
 
// Create the text to print
 
text  = "OpenInsight is the only database development and application environment that provides both Windows, "
text: = "Linux and Java-based GUI tools to develop and deploy web-based and client server applications that "
text: = "support native XML, SQL, Lotus Notes. There are 1.6 mm licenses of Revelation products across 80k "
text: = "deployed sites worldwide."
 
// Print the text
 
OlePutProperty(oleObj,"TEXT",text)
status = OleStatus()
if status then
   msg(@window,'OLE Error code: ':status)
end
 
// End the print job
 
ReturnValue = OleCallMethod(oleObj, "ENDDOC")
status = OleStatus()
if OleStatus() then
   msg(@window,'OLE Error code: ':status)
end
 
// Save the text to a temp file for use in the VSPDF OLE object
 
returnValue = OleCallMethod(oleObj,"SAVEDOC","pdftemp.txt")
status = OleStatus()
if OleStatus() then
   msg(@window,'OLE Error code: ':status)
end
 
// Start the VSPDF OLE object to create the pdf file
 
oleObj2 = OleCreateInstance('VSPDF.VSPDF.1')
status = OleStatus()
if OleStatus() then
   msg(@window,'OLE Error code: ':status)
   return
end
 
// Create the PDF file
 
returnvalue = OleCallMethod(oleObj2,"convertfile","pdftemp.txt","C:\temp\new_ole_func.pdf")
status = OleStatus()
if OleStatus() then
   msg(@window,'OLE Error code: ':status)
end
return
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