I thought you couldn’t install PAC Display by itself. I thought you have to load PAC Project. I would have to install SoftPAC and write a small program to handle a few calculations for the recipe file as you are building it in PAC Display. So I would have to have them make sure SoftPAC was running, then load PAC Display runtime. Seems like a lot of steps to get there.
I didn’t want to have to install all that stuff on multiple PCs of a client that wants to build recipe files from the office. Then load them to the all-in-one located at the machine. They all have excel already, so it would be nice just to build an excel workbook to handle this. I think I know how to build the the actual text to make it look like the .rcp file, but I don’t know how to export all the fields and get it to save as or convert to a .rcp file. I was hoping someone has tried this and can just give me the sample code. In excel, I can save a sheet as a .txt file but not a .rcp and I wouldn’t want the client to have to change the extension every time they build a new recipe.
I have done some pretty elaborate things in Excel before (years and years ago) and I’m a little rusty. One thing I have never done is work with VB or macros. I might have to learn a few things with those items, but I do know I can create the .txt file to look exactly like the the .rcp. I have 2 days to get this done.