[IL CS5 - Win] DDE from Filemaker

[fivan]

Hi all

I have to execute a script in Illustrator launching it from Filemaker.

Filemaker can run a DDE command and I want to know if Illustrator can be called in this way.

someone can help me?

[CarlosCanto]

Filemaker is DDE compliant...is AI? i'm not sure.

What are you trying to accomplish thru DDE?, there might be alternatives

[Edit] Illustrator does not support DDE

[fivan]

I'm trying to run a script.

Filemaker must tell to Illustrator to execute a jsxbn script.

[CarlosCanto]

what does the script do?

[fivan]

Many different kind of operations on layers and texts.

Finaly export in svg with interactivity.

All those operations on every documents in a folder.

But this is not important.

Today I have to do this but tomorrow may be something else.

The Goal is to find a way to let Filemaker start the script of iullustrator, cause is filemaker that prepares and exports data used by the script

[CarlosCanto]

Hi Ivan, I don't know how to use FM, I don't have it either...so I ignore the scripting capabilities of it, there might be a way to run files, but it is not possible to access Illustrator thru DDE. However, a simple search showed that its DOM is exposed to VB for scripting...So VB can talk to both FM and Illustrator, and can tell Illustrator to run a jsx file after doing somenthing in FM, does it make sense?

[fivan]

Hi Carlos.

Yes it make sense, but in this case the problem is... Me 😞  I do not know VB.

I'm not used to work on Win..

So this is a good reason to learn VB.

thanks

Ivan