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Re: IDLcomIDispatch question (newbie alert!) [message #39073]

Sun, 25 April 2004 16:24

cartik_sharma
Messages: 4
Registered: March 2004

Junior Member

1. I found a useful example to integrate/modify Excel spreadsheets
into IDL in the External Development Guide for IDL.,Pages 88 to 92.
You'd find the same program in
C:\RSI\lib\examples\combridge\ActiveXExcel.pro

Not as elegant as directly using the registered COM object but works
ok.
-Cartik

jnettle1@utk.edu (Jeff) wrote in message news:<330af58b.0404231210.3383b26f@posting.google.com>...
> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong in the following line:
>
> xl = obj_new("IDLcomIDispatch$PROGID$Excel_Application")
>
> I was hoping this would create a reference to excel, but it's giving
> me the error:
> "OBJ_NEW: Requested object doesn't exist."
> Which is weird to me, because I am 90% sure I'm using the correct
> PROGID....at least I know that this PROGID works when i try to use COM
> objects using other languages like VB or PERL. Any help would be
> greatly appreaciated. I've searched the archives for excel references
> and what i found doesn't look too promising, so I don't have high
> hopes that I'm going to get this to work, but hopefully one of you
> fine folks will show me something silly that I've missed :)
>
> Thanks and have a good weekend,
> Jeff

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