Hey, thanks for the response! You have answered my question on how to open the Word document inside the browser insteading of having it be downloaded. But the bigger question is how do I get the Word application to open inside of a frame, with the menu and toolbars displaying. One major thing that I had left out is that the Word documents may be stored inside of an Oracle database as a BLOB. I don't believe that I can retrieve it using VBScript, which is why I implemented ActiveX control. (Although I could retrieve the BLOB into a file using plsql, it is the path w/the most resistence right now. Politics, don't ask.) I have an ActiveX control embedded in one frame. When I activate it, I hope to be able to download the blob into a file in the client's local directory (I've got this down)and then open it up inside of a frame, with the menu bar and toolbars available.
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by: JNSTAUBPosted on 2003-10-27 at 02:41:53ID: 9626004
from msdn:
The following two basic approaches to controlling the behavior will be discussed:
As a user, you can set client options through Windows Explorer. The advantage of this approach is that the user retains control of the browser's behavior.
As a Web author, you can write client-side script. The advantage of this approach is that you can customize the client behavior from a central location. However, there is a caveat: implementing this method requires a client-based installation of Office 97 and is inherently slow.
Use the following steps for the first approach--setting client options through Windows Explorer:
Launch Windows Explorer.
From the View menu, select Options("Folder Options" if Internet Explorer 4.0 is installed).
From the Options dialog box, click the File Types tab.
From the listing of "Registered File Types," select "Microsoft Word Document," and click Edit.
From the Edit File Type screen, clear the "Browse in same window" check box, which toggles whether a Word document is launched outside of Internet Explorer.
Click OK to close the dialog boxes.
Note that behind the scenes, simple Registry flags are being set, which means that someone with experience in creating .Reg files can automate this change.
For the second approach, as a Web author you can control the behavior of a Word document through OLE Automation, provided the client is running Microsoft Word. Here are the basic steps:
Create a client-side function that instantiates Microsoft Word, and accepts the URL of the document as its argument.
Create a button to call the function, passing the URL of the Word document.
Here's a sample client-side script using automation with Word 97 installed on the client computer: <HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBScript>
Dim objWord
Sub Btn1_onclick()
call OpenDoc("http://MyServer/M
End Sub
Sub OpenDoc(strLocation)
Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Applica
objWord.Visible = true
objWord.Documents.Open strLocation
End Sub
</SCRIPT>
<TITLE>Launch Word</Title>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<INPUT TYPE=BUTTON NAME=Btn1 VALUE="Open Word Doc">
</BODY>
</HTML>