Calling Swriter from Cobol

[flintstones1962]

Hello,

I've posted this issue some months ago, and tried all possible solutions to call 'swriter' from a cobol program but it doesn't load.

When a call is made from a Cobol program to open a document created with swriter, swriter doesn't start. ( while the same cobol satement works with MSWORD without any problem)

The cobol statement is something like this:

Call "c:\program files\......\swriter.exe mydoc.odt'

mydoc.odt already exist on the disk.

checking the result-code of the call statement from cobol shows that the call statement has been executed without any error.

the last solution I've used is to create a batch file from the cobol program and put the command line in, and call the batch file, but also it doesn't work!!!!!



Any tips?

Regards

[B Marcelly]

Hi,
- You must have the complete path for the document you open
- It's sufficient to use soffice.exe for opening an OpenOffice.org document
- You may have to enclose the program path in double quotes, and also the document path

As example, this works from the command window:

[flintstones1962]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

I've tried your solution, but it doesn't work.

Any other tips,

Greetings

[flintstones1962]

Hello,

Finally, after alot of work it worked.


Regards,

[B Marcelly]