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Id: 70665
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Queue: Win32-OLE

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Requestors: conversecorollary [...] yahoo.com
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Subject: Win32::OLE and OFFLB
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 03:51:50 -0700 (PDT)
To: Jan Dubois <bug-Win32-OLE [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: gary sachs <conversecorollary [...] yahoo.com>
Good Day Jan, I am running into an issue with OUTLOOK and the OFFLB.EXE and I am unsure of the cause, but I was executing PERL scripts using WIN32::OLE to execute Excel. Do you have any recommendations for the best practice to have the PERL script cleanly close/exit WIN32::OLE and EXCEL? Do you know and/or have seen issues with PERL and WIN32::OLE causing issues to have OFFLB.EXE kick in? Thanks, gary
Subject: RE: [rt.cpan.org #70665] Win32::OLE and OFFLB
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:43:46 -0700
To: <bug-Win32-OLE [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: "Jan Dubois" <jand [...] activestate.com>
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011, gary sachs via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> I am running into an issue with OUTLOOK and the OFFLB.EXE and I am > unsure of the cause, but I was executing PERL scripts using WIN32::OLE > to execute Excel. Do you have any recommendations for the best > practice to have the PERL script cleanly close/exit WIN32::OLE and > EXCEL? Do you know and/or have seen issues with PERL and WIN32::OLE > causing issues to have OFFLB.EXE kick in?
offlb.exe is the "Office Lifeboat" program. It starts up when one of the Office application seems to be hanging. So maybe the way you are accessing Excel is hitting a bug in the Excel Automation model. There is nothing in Win32::OLE that can be done about this; I would suggest that you ask for help with your application in a general Perl on Windows help forum, e.g. the perl-win32-users mailing list. You will need to post a sample program that reproduces the issue though, otherwise nobody will be able to help you there either. Cheers, -Jan
not a bug in Win32::OLE
Subject: RE: [rt.cpan.org #70665] Win32::OLE and OFFLB
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 07:20:09 -0700 (PDT)
To: bug-Win32-OLE [...] rt.cpan.org
From: gary sachs <conversecorollary [...] yahoo.com>
Jan, thank you. I am just covering bases at this point I am also exploring that OUTLOOK may have an issue since the problem did occur when I had not used the PERL script that uses EXCEL. Thank you again, gary --- On Thu, 9/1/11, jand@ActiveState.com via RT <bug-Win32-OLE@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text
> From: jand@ActiveState.com via RT <bug-Win32-OLE@rt.cpan.org> > Subject: RE: [rt.cpan.org #70665] Win32::OLE and OFFLB > To: conversecorollary@yahoo.com > Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 11:43 AM > <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70665 > > > On Thu, 01 Sep 2011, gary sachs via RT wrote:
> > I am running into an issue with OUTLOOK and the
> OFFLB.EXE and I am
> > unsure of the cause, but I was executing PERL scripts
> using WIN32::OLE
> > to execute Excel. Do you have any recommendations for
> the best
> > practice to have the PERL script cleanly close/exit
> WIN32::OLE and
> > EXCEL? Do you know and/or have seen issues with PERL
> and WIN32::OLE
> > causing issues to have OFFLB.EXE kick in?
> > offlb.exe is the "Office Lifeboat" program.  It starts > up when one of the > Office application seems to be hanging.  So maybe the > way you are accessing > Excel is hitting a bug in the Excel Automation model.  > There is nothing > in Win32::OLE that can be done about this; I would suggest > that you > ask for help with your application in a general Perl on > Windows help > forum, e.g. the perl-win32-users mailing list.  You > will need to > post a sample program that reproduces the issue though, > otherwise > nobody will be able to help you there either. > > Cheers, > -Jan > > > >