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#85737 - 2002-05-25 02:40 AM More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	Can anyone double-check this for me ? run this script as-is, the test for the ie createobject works just fine, then comment out the ie create and uncomment the adodb create, same test, but it tests negative (but the object got created just fine) ... break on $obj = createobject("internetexplorer.application") ; $obj = createobject("adodb.connection") if $obj ?"ok" else ?"bad" endif exit 1 Thanks for any help. -Shawn
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#85738 - 2002-05-25 02:51 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	I get an "ok" for each createobject. _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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#85739 - 2002-05-25 02:53 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	Howard, what does this give you in rc1 $obj = createobject("internetexplorer.application") ?$obj -Shawn
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#85740 - 2002-05-25 02:55 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	Script error : Error in expression: Dispatch pointers not allowed in expressions. ! Same for the ADODB. [ 25 May 2002, 02:56: Message edited by: Howard Bullock ] _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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#85741 - 2002-05-25 02:56 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	Your running 4.10 Release Candidate 1 ?
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#85742 - 2002-05-25 02:58 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	@kix = 4.10 Beta 1 Kix32.exe File version 4.10.0.0 dated 4/3/2002 6:06 PM _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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#85743 - 2002-05-25 03:02 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	could you try release candidate 1, available from here: here We should get this posted-up in the downloads section here, don't know why Henri hasn't done that yet.
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#85744 - 2002-05-25 03:03 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	where does one get RC1? _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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#85745 - 2002-05-25 03:10 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	C:\Data\Kix2001\KiX2001.410rc1>kix32 test2.kix ok C:\Data\Kix2001\KiX2001.410rc1>kix32 test2.kix bad -------------------------------- $obj = createobject("adodb.connection") ? $obj results in nothing displayed. _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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#85746 - 2002-05-25 03:11 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	break on $obj = createobject("internetexplorer.application") ? $obj yields Microsoft Internet Explorer _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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#85747 - 2002-05-25 03:12 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	try this one though, think you might see something very interesting: $obj = createobject("internetexplorer.application") ?$obj
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#85748 - 2002-05-25 03:14 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	Beat you to it. _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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#85749 - 2002-05-25 03:19 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	Might know whats happening here. Last thing I read, Ruud implemented default properties for COM objects, you know, when you specify just the object name, it will default to the "default property", em, for example, i think the default property for an ADODB recordset FIELD object is the "VALUE" property. Haven't tried it yet though, but this obviously means we can't test object creation like we used to. It also might explain a couple of other issues I've seen. Do you have a DB script that displays field values - maybe you could see if something gets displayed, even if you omit the VALUE propery. -Shawn [ 25 May 2002, 03:21: Message edited by: Shawn ]
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#85750 - 2002-05-25 03:25 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	Sorry, only DB script I have are Perl. VarTypeName($obj) reports "Object" if success or "Empty" if failed. _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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#85751 - 2002-05-25 03:34 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	thanks howard, just dug up a script, this seems to be what is going on. Kixtart now supports default COM properties, very nice ! break on $db = "f:\msaccess\db1.mdb" $cn = createobject("adodb.connection") $cn.connectionstring = "data source=$db; provider=microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0;" $cn.open() $rs = $cn.execute('select * from table1') while not $rs.eof() ?"cn=" $rs.fields("computername") ; here ! $rs.movenext loop $cn.close() $cn = 0 exit 1 -Shawn [ 25 May 2002, 03:35: Message edited by: Shawn ]
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#85752 - 2002-05-25 03:41 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	I also grabbed an ADO script from the posts today. I do not fully understand COM. Could you explain this issue in more detail? _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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#85753 - 2002-05-25 04:00 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	well, for example, the internetexplorer.application object has a whole whack of properties, like VISIBLE and WIDTH and HEIGHT and others. normally, one would have to specify each property explicitly when referencing it, eg: $ie.visible = 1 $ie.width = 500 but, usually, all COM objects have a DEFAULT property. This is the property that is referenced when NO property is specified, for example, if NAME is the default property for IE, you would just say: ?"name=" $ie and out would come the NAME, which IS actually the default property for IE, NAME is the name of the object hosting the webbrowser control, in this case Microsoft Internet Explorer. So, this is a good thing. But it means that we'll have to be conscious of this fact going forward... and especially given the fact the we destroy an object with this syntax: $object = 0 not quite sure how Kixtart interprets this now, is this statement trying to set the default property, or destroy the object ? -Shawn [ 25 May 2002, 04:04: Message edited by: Shawn ]
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#85754 - 2002-05-25 04:04 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	Ok. I understand that but is there something significant about the script you posted and the line with ";here !" at the end? _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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#85755 - 2002-05-25 04:11 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Shawn Shawn Administrator Registered: 1999-08-13 Posts: 8611	not really, i was just trying to see if this new feature was actually working or not. the only default property I could think of off hand was the VALUE property of the FIELD object, so when I ran that script, i got this: cn=xxx cn=yyy cn=zzz even though in the script, i didn't say this: ?"cn=" $rs.fields("computername").value it used this: ?"cn=" $rs.fields("computername") and it worked. The point is I guess is that this new feature is the cause, i think, of a few problems i've seen lately, like for example, in the first script I posted, testing for object creation. -Shawn p.s. not really problems i guess, more along the lines that we will have to change the way we do things. for example, test @ERROR after object creation, instead of the $object variable itself. [ 25 May 2002, 04:16: Message edited by: Shawn ]
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#85756 - 2002-05-25 04:17 AM Re: More COM issues with 4.10 rc1
Howard Bullock Howard Bullock KiX Supporter Registered: 2000-09-15 Posts: 5809 Loc: Harrisburg, PA USA	Well that may work for reading but it doesn't work for setting a value. $rs.addnew $rs.fields.item("computername") = @WKSTA $rs.fields.item("program") = $item $rs.fields.item("date").value = @DATE $rs.fields.item("time").value = @TIME $rs.update The first two fields ended up blank. _________________________ Home page: http://www.kixhelp.com/hb/
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