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ADVANCED SKYLITE CHAPTER 4
OLE Automation
OLE automation is an industry standard that enables applications to expose their OLE
objects to applications that support OLE, such as Visual Basic for Applications (VBA),
the Excel Macro Language, Visual C++, and Delphi.
SkyLite is an automation-enabled object. This means that you can open SkyLite sessions
and make use of the macro language from within applications that are OLE automation
controllers such as VBA. The commands listed below can be used in Visual Basic
programs to start and close SkyLite sessions and run macro scripts.
Command Description Parameter Parameter
Description
session.setting
The name given to
SkyLite in the
Windows registry.
- -
SkyLite.LoadSession
SkyLite.ScriptExec
Loads a SkyLite
session.
Executes the SkyLite
script line.
“String”,
“String”,
bool
“String”
Session File name
including path.
Unused.
Unused.
A valid SkyLite macro
command.
SkyLite.StartScript Runs a macro file. “String” A macro filename
including the full path.
SkyLite.StartSession
Starts or restarts a - -
loaded session.
SkyLite.Unload Unloads SkyLite. - -
SkyLite.EndSession
Ends SkyLite
session.
- -
VBA Example
The following example shows how some of these commands can be used to load and
start a SkyLite session using Visual Basic for Applications.
Rem Define the variable SkyLite as the data type object.
Rem This represents the SkyLite application when used for
Rem OLE automation
Dim SkyLite As object
Rem Create an OLE object that corresponds to SkyLite.
Rem We will use this object to invoke
Rem published automation methods.
Set SkyLite = GetObject("", "Session.Setting")
Rem Start a session with the given name
result = SkyLite.LoadSession("TEST.SES", "", True)
Rem Once SkyLite has loaded, tell it to print something
Rem on the terminal window.
result = SkyLite.ScriptExec("print ""hello world""")
Rem Close the SkyLite session
SkyLite.endsession
Rem Unload/Exit SkyLite
SkyLite.unload
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