accessing another computer's application

[Casey Brown]

Hi.

I have a small VB6 project that opens, modifies, and saves a Powerpoint
file. It will reside on one of my client's servers, and my client wants to
know if there is any way the program can use a licensed version of
Powerpoint that is installed on a *different* computer than the one my
program runs on.

I just thought I should check with the bright minds here before I said "No."
First of all, I don't think it's even technically feasible (is it?), and
secondly, it would bring up ppt licensing issues that I can't imagine would
be pretty.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!
-Casey

 

[Veign]

I guess it could work if your application was to trigger to the application
located on the same machine with PP....

I did this with a CAD program...Wrote a client software which would allow
anyone to setup printing of CAD documents, this would send the information
to the server, which would start the application, perform the operation
(printing mainly), and send a document to the clients default printer...This
way we didnt have to purchase several copies of the application just for
printing and let me control the interface to print so it was non-technical
and user friendly...

--
Chris Hanscom
MVP (Visual Basic)
http://www.veign.com
Application Design Section
http://www.veign.com/information/application/info_app.html

 

[Casey Brown]

Chris,
That sounds good, but I think I forgot to say that my program will be
installed on one computer, and the computer running Powerpoint will not
necessarily be running my program as well. Any thoughts on that?

It looks like CreateObject might work if I give it a servername, but I
haven't had time to test it yet.

Thanks!
-Casey

 

[Ben Taylor]

the computer running Powerpoint will not

necessarily be running my program as well.

Can it not be made to?

 

[Casey Brown]

I would love it to and am pushing for it. However, it's up to them, and
they have some odd company policies, I gather. Argh.