bcx 64 " not a valid win32 program"

[james_c_fuller]

My understanding is it's not COM but excel which breaks many of the normal COM access rules. 

James

--- In BCX at yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Diggins" <kdiggins at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In BCX at yahoogroups.com, David Barron <d.barron57@> wrote:
> >
> > For my next project I want to analyse the share markets, starting
> > with data downloaded into excel spreadsheets I have seen there are
> > some programs on the bcx website, I guess that I will read the data 
> > off the spread sheet analyse it for various trends then either 
> > using console or writing back to the spread sheet my programs 
> > findings, I would be interested if anybody does this or has 
> > experience with reading and writing to xls.
> > Regards Dave
> 
> Dave,
> 
> You will find some excel samples in the COM folder.  Reading and writing to excel worksheets is cake with BCX COM but not exactly a ball of fire -- that's COM's fault, not BCX's.  
> 
> Most times when I need to process excel data, I tend towards exporting that data first to csv and process the data using pure BCX code, not COM - it executes faster and is often easier and quicker to bang out the source code.
>