Excel_Lib on Mac

[J. Landman Gay]

I think it's been a while since any app can send AppleScript to any other 
app. Malware, you know. Some people ruin it for all of us.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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On March 15, 2022 5:32:16 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I did some research. The Macintosh can no longer send apple events to 
> Excel, or indeed any other Microsoft product, due to the fact that Apple 
> Sandboxing prevents it. There ought, I suppose, to be a way to grant this 
> access, but Appleand/or Microsoft has decided to prevent it, making the 
> excel_lib worthless on MacOS.
>
> The more programmers and politicians set about to help me, the less I am 
> able to help myself.
>
> Bob S
>
>
>> On Mar 15, 2022, at 14:50 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I am trying to incorporate Excel_Lib into a project. There is a command to 
>> open a spreadsheet with Excel on a Mac, and ONLY Macs can use this command. 
>> It looks however like the library works with Windows too.
>>
>> My issue is that I am getting an error, "XCELLibErr: Not authorized to send 
>> Apple events to Microsoft Excel." So first, is there an easy way, like a 
>> shell command to do this? And then if not, is using this library dependent 
>> on Apple events on a Mac?
>>
>> Bob S
>>
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