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For
all of you who want to do more with Quotes than enhance email
or enjoy the screensaver here is how you can add Quotes to
your website or Microsoft Word.
Quotes supports a COM interface so everybody who want to program
against this interface from all Visual studio tools or Delphi
can do this easily. You can read how on this page.
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VBA |
In Microsoft Word and other tools that support the VBA (Visual
basic for Applications) engine you can make your own
macro's.
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In the macro menu select 'Macros'
- In the Macro
window type 'Quotes'
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In the Macro window select 'Create'
- In the Visual
basic editor go to the menu 'tools'
- In the menu
'tools' select references
- In the
references check 'Quotes'
- In the Visual
basic editor paste this code inside the Quotes sub(routine):
Dim oQuotes As Quotes.Data
Dim sQuote As String
Set oQuotes = New Quotes.Data
If oQuotes.GetQuote(sQuote) = True Then
'This writes a Quote to a worddocument
'write your own routine for Excel or
another VBA tool
Selection.TypeText sQuote & vbCrLf
End If
Set oQuotes = Nothing
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VBScript |
Programming the
internet with Active Server Pages or using your Windows scripting
host (WSH) you can access Quotes like this.
Dim oQuotes
Dim sQuote
'You do not have to use the ASP server object in WSH 'just
CreateObject will do.
Set oQuotes = Server.CreateObject("Quotes.Data")
If oQuotes.GetQuote(sQuote) = True Then
'This writes a Quote to a HTML client
using ASP
'write your own routine for WSH
response.write sQuote & vbCrLf
End If
Set oQuotes = Nothing
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COM |
The Quotes
COMponent consists contains three classes:
- Quotes.Data
for access to the Quotes files
- Quotes.Settings
for access to the Quotes settings
- Quotes.Signature
for access to your email signature files
Quotes.Data
contains the following important methods:
- GetQuote (for
VBA and VBScript (variant datatypes) for other languages use
the Read function)
- Read: returns
a string containing a random Quote
- FileCount:
Retrieves the number of Quotes data files in the files
directory
- RetrieveFileNames:
Access to the Quotes data files
- AddToDataFile:
to add a new Quote to a data file
- DeleteFromDataFile:
to delete an existing Quotes from a data file
- AddToClipboard:
Adds data to your clipboard
Quotes.Settings
contains the following important methods:
- ReadRegKey:
Read access to the Quotes registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/QUOTES)
- SaveRegKey:
Write
access to the Quotes registry
- DeleteValue:
Deletes a Quotes setting in the registry
- DeleteKey:
Deletes the entire Quotes directory in the registry
- QuotesPath:
Returns the directory in which Quotes resides
- QSaverPath:
Returns the directory in which the Quotes screensaver resides
- SetQuotesSaver:
Sets the Quotes screensaver active in Windows
- SetQuotesOnStartup:
Activate or deactivate automatic Quotes startup
Quotes.Signature
contains the following important methods:
- SaveSignature:
saves on of the signatures managed by Quotes with a new random
Quote
- Writefile:
saves a specific file with specific data (supports RTF format)
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Motion
plugins |
You can write your
own motion plugins for the Quotes screensaver. If you want to know
more about this please contact us.
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