Anyone know if there is a way to store a word doc in Xojo, then load/edit and save to a memory block so the word doc never touches the disk in plain format?
unlikely - word just isn’t built to do this
Theres many q’s about this on places like stack overflow & the general answer is “write it to a temporary file and open that”
MS Word doesnt play nice with that type of scenario. It wants the document on disk so it can touch it.
Hi Dave,
I agree with @Norman Palardy and @scott boss, that this does not seem possible. Microsoft would automatically create a temporary file when a new file is opened. Its part of programming best-practices. The reason for the temporary file is that there is a temporary backup of data when/if there is an error and Word needs to close and previous data can be recovered.
And why using Word vs a text styled TextArea (for example) ?
Does it have to be a .DOC file?
Do you want to actually open Word, or is the aim to just ‘edit the document’?
if you store an RTF file, you can open that as a string.
You can replace text with other text and manipulate the formatting.
But at the end of that or any other edit, if you dont save it back to disc (you cant save it back into the bundle), what will you do with it?
Maybe it’s possible to use a virtualvolume where you can save the word document, as long as you don’t save/close the virtualvolume nothing is written to disk AFAIK. If you delete the word document from the virtual volume before closing nothing should get on disk.
Versions of Word from 2000 onwards (the older versions needing the compatibility pack) can save documents in docx format which is xml. These can be altered quite easily without going near word. Maybe that is an option?
Example of MS Word .docx. With some work you can manipulate the objects. I do this with the DocProperties.
[code]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<?mso-application progid="Word.Document"?><w:wordDocument
xmlns:w=“http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml”
xmlns:wx=“http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint”
xmlns:o=“urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office”
w:macrosPresent=“no”
w:embeddedObjPresent=“no”
w:ocxPresent=“no”
xml:space=“preserve”>
<o:DocumentProperties>
<o:Title>This is the title</o:Title>
<o:Author>Darl McBride</o:Author>
<o:LastAuthor>Bill Gates</o:LastAuthor>
<o:Revision>1</o:Revision>
<o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime>
<o:Created>2007-03-15T23:05:00Z</o:Created>
<o:LastSaved>2007-03-15T23:05:00Z</o:LastSaved>
<o:Pages>1</o:Pages>
<o:Words>6</o:Words>
<o:Characters>40</o:Characters>
<o:Company>SCO Group, Inc.</o:Company>
<o:Lines>1</o:Lines>
<o:Paragraphs>1</o:Paragraphs>
<o:CharactersWithSpaces>45</o:CharactersWithSpaces>
<o:Version>11.6359</o:Version>
</o:DocumentProperties>
<w:fonts>
<w:defaultFonts
w:ascii=“Times New Roman”
w:fareast=“Times New Roman”
w:h-ansi=“Times New Roman”
w:cs=“Times New Roman” />
</w:fonts>
<w:styles>
<w:versionOfBuiltInStylenames w:val=“4” />
<w:latentStyles w:defLockedState=“off” w:latentStyleCount=“156” />
<w:style w:type=“paragraph” w:default=“on” w:styleId=“Normal”>
<w:name w:val=“Normal” />
<w:rPr>
<wx:font wx:val=“Times New Roman” />
<w:sz w:val=“24” />
<w:sz-cs w:val=“24” />
<w:lang w:val=“EN-US” w:fareast=“EN-US” w:bidi=“AR-SA” />
</w:rPr>
</w:style>
<w:style w:type=“paragraph” w:styleId=“Heading1”>
<w:name w:val=“heading 1” />
<wx:uiName wx:val=“Heading 1” />
<w:basedOn w:val=“Normal” />
<w:next w:val=“Normal” />
<w:rsid w:val=“00D93B94” />
<w:pPr>
<w:pStyle w:val=“Heading1” />
<w:keepNext />
<w:spacing w:before=“240” w:after=“60” />
<w:outlineLvl w:val=“0” />
</w:pPr>
<w:rPr>
<w:rFonts w:ascii=“Arial” w:h-ansi=“Arial” w:cs=“Arial” />
<wx:font wx:val=“Arial” />
<w:b />
<w:b-cs />
<w:kern w:val=“32” />
<w:sz w:val=“32” />
<w:sz-cs w:val=“32” />
</w:rPr>
</w:style>
<w:style w:type=“character” w:default=“on” w:styleId=“DefaultParagraphFont”>
<w:name w:val=“Default Paragraph Font” />
<w:semiHidden />
</w:style>
<w:style w:type=“table” w:default=“on” w:styleId=“TableNormal”>
<w:name w:val=“Normal Table” />
<wx:uiName wx:val=“Table Normal” />
<w:semiHidden />
<w:rPr>
<wx:font wx:val=“Times New Roman” />
</w:rPr>
<w:tblPr>
<w:tblInd w:w=“0” w:type=“dxa” />
<w:tblCellMar>
<w:top w:w=“0” w:type=“dxa” />
<w:left w:w=“108” w:type=“dxa” />
<w:bottom w:w=“0” w:type=“dxa” />
<w:right w:w=“108” w:type=“dxa” />
</w:tblCellMar>
</w:tblPr>
</w:style>
<w:style w:type=“list” w:default=“on” w:styleId=“NoList”>
<w:name w:val=“No List” />
<w:semiHidden />
</w:style>
</w:styles>
<w:docPr>
<w:view w:val=“print” />
<w:zoom w:percent=“100” />
<w:doNotEmbedSystemFonts />
<w:proofState w:spelling=“clean” w:grammar=“clean” />
<w:attachedTemplate w:val=“” />
<w:defaultTabStop w:val=“720” />
<w:punctuationKerning />
<w:characterSpacingControl w:val=“DontCompress” />
<w:optimizeForBrowser />
<w:validateAgainstSchema />
<w:saveInvalidXML w:val=“off” />
<w:ignoreMixedContent w:val=“off” />
<w:alwaysShowPlaceholderText w:val=“off” />
<w:compat>
<w:breakWrappedTables />
<w:snapToGridInCell />
<w:wrapTextWithPunct />
<w:useAsianBreakRules />
<w:dontGrowAutofit />
</w:compat>
</w:docPr>
<w:body>
wx:sect
<w:p>
<w:r>
<w:t>This is the first paragraph</w:t>
</w:r>
</w:p>
wx:sub-section
<w:p>
<w:pPr>
<w:pStyle w:val=“Heading1” />
</w:pPr>
<w:r>
<w:t>This is a heading</w:t>
</w:r>
</w:p>
<w:sectPr>
<w:pgSz w:w=“12240” w:h=“15840” />
<w:pgMar w:top=“1440”
w:right=“1800”
w:bottom=“1440”
w:left=“1800”
w:header=“720”
w:footer=“720”
w:gutter=“0” />
<w:cols w:space=“720” />
<w:docGrid w:line-pitch=“360” />
</w:sectPr>
</wx:sub-section>
</wx:sect>
</w:body>
</w:wordDocument>[/code]