Re: Can custom webbot use frontpage via COM?

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Hi Stefan --

I appreciate the link, however I'm not sure the Managed Add-Ins are
appropriate to my original question. From the webpage: "After you have a form
in your add-in, you need a way to access it from within FrontPage. You can do
this by adding new menus, menu items, toolbars, and toolbar controls."

The key difference is that a webbot drops into the page's HTML and executes
every time that you: recalculate links, re-save the page, etc. On the other
hand an add-in, similar to a macro, appears on the toolbar or menu and
executes only once. My understanding is that when you click the toolbar
button to call the add-in, it would insert text and never evaluate again.

Since my proposed "breadcrumbs navigation" needs to update every time the
page is re-hashed (to check if the navigation structure has changed), I'm not
sure if this is possible with using a Managed Add-in. I think the add-in
would be little different than hardcoding the menu in HTML, whereas a webbot
would be a design-time dynamic element.

Am I confused? Is it possible to make Frontpage execute an add-in every time
the page re-hashes, similar to a webbot? Are you saying that I need to export
a COM interface and use the (obsolete?) DTC interface like interdev? That's
basically what the webpage describes by using a Managed Interop, if I'm
reading correctly.

Thanks!! It's confusing....

"Stefan B Rusynko" wrote:

> Sorry wrong link
> Should have been a link to
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_fp2003_ta/html/odc_fpManagedFrontPageAddIns.asp?frame=true
>
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> _____________________________________________
> SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
> "Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
> To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
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> "Stefan B Rusynko" <sbr_enjoy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e6jNC2ieFHA.3028@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | See
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> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_fp2003_ta/html/odc_fpValidatingFormControlsUsingJavaScript.asp
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> | --
> |
> | _____________________________________________
> | SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
> | "Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
> | To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
> | http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
> | _____________________________________________
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> |
> | "Joey Oravec" <JoeyOravec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:0107EEEF-D113-420B-8E2C-D334C047EB2A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> || Hi, I'm trying to write a webbot to provide "breadcrumbs navigation" in
> || frontpage 2003. Since the output string will be calculated at design time
> || (static) based upon the navigation view, a client-side webbot seems like the
> || perfect solution.
> ||
> || Using Visual C++ 2005 beta 2, I can already make a webbot. Am I able to
> || access the Frontpage web object model from within this webbot? I can't figure
> || out how.
> ||
> || I've included my code below. The example files with the 2002 SDK are useless
> || with Visual C++ 2005, since the interfaces have changed. I get a non-NULL
> || value for myapp but I get an HRESULT 0x80010001 "call rejected by callee".
> || Why??
> ||
> || #include "webbot.h"
> || #import <MSO.DLL>
> || #import <VBE6EXT.OLB>
> || #import <fpeditax.dll> rename("namespace", "my_namespace")
> || #import <frontpg.exe>
> || using namespace FrontPage;
> ||
> || BeginWebBotExpand(crumbs,ret,bot,cgi,form)
> || {
> || HRESULT hRes;
> || //CoInitialize(NULL); // Since I'm in a webbot, should I do this?
> ||
> || _ApplicationPtr myapp(__uuidof(Application));
> || _variant_t versionVar;
> || versionVar = myapp->Version;
> ||
> || //CoUninitialize(); // Since I'm in a webbot, should I do this?
> || } EndWebBotExpand
> ||
> || Any ideas? I considered a FrontPage design time control but it looks that
> || DTCs are totally dead, and they're poorly documented. Am I wrong, and they
> || might work better?
> ||
> || Thanks!
> ||
> || -joey
> |
> |
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