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Excellent work!!! Two questions 1) Can an example modified to include a proper report format with title page and diffent color and size fonts. 2) The the processing be done in the back ground without openning anything? Thanks a lot.

Riccardo,

1) The plugins system you mention would be ideal to ensure maximal power and modularity. This kind of contribution could greatly benefit from such an architecture. It's also true that i have a few ideas on how to rewrite the code to accept and automatically detect subfunctions. However, it's a time-consuming task so i can't promise i'm going to implement these features :-( Right now, i prefer to concentrate on a full demo of all current possibilities.

2) I could certainly set up this kind of structure if i was hired by the Mathworks but unfortunately it is not the case :-) I already have a full-time job and a rest-of-the-time girlfriend that both imply not-too-much-remaining-time for a thread about a subject as complex as ActiveX.

WORDREPORT and all of its contents are "open-source" so feel free (as in free speech and free beer) to update/expand/modify it if you realize i'm no longer maintaining it. As you said, it's just the beginning. There are endless possibilities to what you can do with ActiveX !

Thanks again for your suggestions and see you soon for a full demo (and maybe more...).

Laurent

Dimitri,

Thanks for your congratulations and constructive remarks. To answer them:

 0 - I'm currently working on externalizing a full demo including Simulink/Stateflow screenshots. Hope to release it by the end of the week, depending on my workload.

 1 - I'm afraid I won't be able to speed things up :-( Execution speed must be limited by the ActiveX technology itself. Someone has any idea on the subject ?

 2 - Actually, Word is opened once at the beginning then hidden during the process of adding content. However, it may be possible to play with the Visible property and the Trace method (in CreateDoc) to completely hide the process and prevent user from taking control.

 3 - To override this 'append-by-default' behavior, you can check for file existence and then decide whether to keep the file or not. You can also use the GOTO method to jump to a specified item of the document (table, heading, figure, line, section, ...).

 4 - I agree, there's plenty of room for improvement on this part :-)

 5 - Default settings for line breaks is [0 1] (one after and none before) so you can get rif of this argument most of the time. However, your linebreak method is not a bad idea. To investigate too, maybe in the next version !

See you later for the full demo pack,

Laurent

Good job! As said a friend close to me: "c'est guenial!".