Thanks to everybody for the great help & tips,

Thank you,

Nico Callewaert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Belding" <russell@...>
Newsgroups: egroups.ibobjects
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] IBO / Office question


> Hello Nico
>
> Lets call the things you want to store WTs for MS Word tables and other
Word
> Things. You want WTs to behave lke they do in MS-Word not just with
> truncated behaviour as tables do in RTF editors.
>
> I think of your problem in three parts: storing, retrieving & arranging,
and
> presenting. If you use RTF components you cannot do everything with WTs
you
> do in MSWord. You must use MS Word (or equivalent) to arrange tables
> automatically as you do in MSWord. You can store WTs in many databases
such
> as Paradox and Firebird. You can present the final document in MSWord or
> Report Builder. But you need MSWord for interim rearranging and
formatting.
>
> If you can persuade your client to accept an RTF solution with its limited
> manipulation of tables you have a less expensive task.
>
> If you must have MSWord you can write macros in word to retrieve Word
> Documents from databases. I have examples of this.Contact me privately if
> you want to.
>
> I hope I have correctly interpreted your question.
>
> Regards
>
> Russell
>
>
>
> ""Nico Callewaert"" <nico-callewaert@...> wrote in message
> news:003601c1bbcf$346da5b0$6dbaefd4@trislotjibg99l...
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I have a big problem. It's not really a IBO related question,
> but I don't know where else to ask. My user wants a apllication to store
> "text", but not just text, formatted text, like MS-Word, I've made
something
> like that with a TIB_RichEdit component, he had the possibilities to set
> text bold, italic, underline, colors and things like that. but now he's
> asking to insert tables like in Word, and that the tables automatically
> resizes when text is getting too long, all in that TIB_RichEdit field.
The
> whole thing is used to make quotations, where we have a table with the
> header, and a detail table where the text is saved. I just answered that
a
> office application isn't the same as a database application. Just like
you
> can't use Excel to make a database with. But of cours
> > e he's expecting a solution, what should I do ?
> >
> > Please help me, I'm drowning :-))))
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nico Callewaert
> >
> >
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