I have to create a WordPerfect document from a VB6 program. Nothing really
difficult, just dump some text into it in multiple lines, save it and exit.

Anybody done this before?

It doesn't look like very many have tried <g> Here's an article that may
help.... if you can figure out what the strange characters are (and remove
that hard coded file number <g>)

Automate WordPerfect from VB (Article)
http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=4021

I've done it with Word but not WordPerfect.  Is it possible to use a
RichText control and just save the rtf text to a file with an rtf extension?
I assume WordPerfect can open a simple rtf file so your app will work with
either product.

Jim Edgar

Dave-

I haven't worked with WP since version 9 and at that time they were porting
the wordperfect macro library to a VBA class, but it wasn't callable outside
the program. I would think that 2-3 versions later they would have that
available now. If so, it would be similar to using Word automation. If not,
I think your best bet would be to create plain text files and then write a
Wordperfect macro to loop through them and save them in WP format.

HTH

Matt

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