probs with:new ActiveXObject("EXcelApplication")

[luzifer]

Hi there!

I´m quite new into Javascript and ActiveX, so my problems are even bigger
Here´s what i wanna do:
i´m about to create a little intranetpage with a lot of links to excel and word files. those files should open in Word and Excel, not in Internet Explorer!
i managed this. (script below) and with word everything is ok. but excel is givin me some serious headaches.
the Excel files do open in Excel, but first curios thing is u got to leave the file extension '.xls' out of the path. (but thats not a prob as the files do open!)
but where the problem realy kicks in is after closing the Excel application, cause excel is still runing in background as a prozess (<- dont know the proper expression, it is still shown in task manager in the second sheet) and u do have to close it manually.
ok. enough foreplay, we are using NT 4.0 and IE 5.0
and heres the script:
<script language=&quot;javaScript&quot;>
function startExcel(strFile)
{
var objExcel;
objExcel = new ActiveXObject(&quot;Excel.Application&quot;
if (objExcel != null)
{
objExcel.Visible = true;
objExcel.workbooks.Open(strFile);
}
}
</script>

then i refer to it with href=&quot;javascript:startExcel('file:///.....')&quot;
any suggestions here??
as i said, the files do open in excel, but they dont close properly!
thnx in advance

chris

some amusement: i managed the whole problem with VBScript, but then some1 told me that VBScript will not run on all machines and i cant to it like that