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| Purpose: | The OLEClient object provides access to an OLE Automation Server |
Description
The OLEClient object allows you to control OLE Servers, which may be written in a variety of different programming languages, including Dyalog APL itself.
The ClassName property specifies the name of the OLE object to which the new object named by the left argument of ⎕WC is to be connected. A list of all the OLE Server objects installed on your system may be obtained from the OLEServers property of Root. ClassName may only be specified by ⎕WC.
Alternatively, the OLE object may be identified by the ClassID property.
The AutoBrowse property and Browse method are no longer relevant and are ignored. They are retained only for backwards compatibility with previous versions of Dyalog APL.
Note that the PropList and MethodList properties of an OLEClient instance contain the names of the properties and methods exposed by the corresponding OLE Object in addition to the generic properties and methods of the OLEClient class.
If you call an OLE method with an invalid parameter, set a read-only property, or assign it an invalid value, the LastError property of the OLEClient and Root objects will contain error information generated by OLE.