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Why was OLE dropped?

Haneef Tayob
Booster
Anyone know of reasons why OLE functionality was dropped in ArchiCad10?

OLE allowed one to have live links to other files such as documents and spreadsheets placed in Archicad/plotmaker. The workarounds have been covered in other posts, but I'm still wondering why it was dropped.
Haneef Tayob
Aziz Tayob Architects
AC23 INT rel 3003, OS X 10.14.6 iMac 3.3ghz i5 dual monitor, 24GB RAM
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Djordje
Virtuoso
Commercially very viable, comparing the number fo Windows licenses to Mac licenses (sorry, Ben ... facts.)

Maybe not OLE, but SOMETHING that reads LIVE Word and Excel documents. Mac OS and Windows both.
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Anonymous
Not applicable
Now what about the

ALL-NEW-ALL-SINGING-ALL-DANCING

.xml file type?

Maybe ArchiCAD can be even smarter than allowing live files to be updated.....


(or so the snake-oil salesman would have you believe....)!