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Re: IDLcomIDispatch question (newbie alert!) [message #39216 is a reply to message #39085]

Mon, 26 April 2004 08:52

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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"Jeff" wrote in message...

> 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."

I can't tell you what you are doing wrong but I can tell you that if you use
the CLSID it works fine. I generally stick with the CLSID but I too tried
with the PROGID and I got the same error. IDL knows that the PROGID is a
valid class string, but it seems that it can't do anything with it.

-Rick

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