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From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <>
Subject: Re: FTW - OLE links
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 12:05:35 +0000


In article <5ctk7j$>, Paul Burchfield
<> writes
>In article <>, wrote:
><snip>
>>The whole point of OLE as I understand it is to enable a single copy
>>of a document to be referenced, and updated, by a number of programs.
>>This doesn't seem to work, or is my understanding wrong?
>
>OLE stands for Object Linking and Embedding. Another way to say it
>would be Object Linking and Object Embedding. For images like BMP
>files we made the decision to embed and not to link. perhaps you will
>bebable to choose to link in the future.
>
Er, no. This is BULL (Broderbund Unusual Linking Logic :).

You cannot redefine OLE to suit yourself. If FTW is an OLE container,
Paint is an OLE server, and a .BMP file is an OLE object, activating the
object in the container should open it in the server in a separate
window under OLE 1.0, or should allow in situ activation under OLE 2.0.
Both should allow full use of the server functions. If FTW doesn't do
this, any claim to offer OLE is misrepresentation.
--
Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake

Drake Software web site at http://www.tdrake.demon.co.u

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