Streaming blobs into a word processor?

[b...@rsi.com]

Hello All!

We are working on an application which stores and retreives word
processor documents from/into blobs (IDS 7.30).

Does anyone know how to get the blob data loaded into the word
processor without having to store it in a temporary file on disk.

The application is written in PowerBuilder (6.5) which can
store and retrieve the blob without any problem. The real
question is: How do we get the blob into the word processing
application?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

TIA,

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Bob Gorman
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[Art S. Kagel]

b...@rsi.com wrote:
>
> Hello All!
>
> We are working on an application which stores and retreives word
> processor documents from/into blobs (IDS 7.30).
>
> Does anyone know how to get the blob data loaded into the word
> processor without having to store it in a temporary file on disk.
>
> The application is written in PowerBuilder (6.5) which can
> store and retrieve the blob without any problem. The real
> question is: How do we get the blob into the word processing
> application?

Depends on your platform. On MS-Win* you can use ActiveX or the other
Windows mechanisms to pass the data to the word processor. On UNIX
it would depend on the word processor and the window manager.

Art S. Kagel