[Openroad-users] FW: ActiveX Word - hanging

[Paul White]

From: Pete Wilkinson 
 Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2008 9:31 PM
To: openroad-users at peerlessit.com
Subject: ActiveX Word - hanging 
 
We've had Word merging & printing working fine with ActiveX through OR,
but this was with a single local instance; Word starts, merges, then
prints the document or lets it remain open if rquired.  This was fine
until in practice the users were keeping lots of documents open, hence I
had lots of instances of Word running!

So I've been trying to get it to work with a global instance, with
varying degrees of success.  All seems ok until you start to interact
with Word, the egg-timer appears and the document cannot be used.  Word
is not showing as using any significant processor time, Word just seems
locked somehow!?

I've a global variable of type ExtObject, which is assigned to the
correct Word Library version at runtime.  I start an invisible frame up
which initates Word, assigns the instance to a global var, then watches
for Word events, code similar to that below:

        FV005_WORD_LIBRARY_GV  = ExtObject; 

        INITIALISE () = 
        DECLARE 
            oWord = WinWord!Application; 
        ENDDECLARE 
        BEGIN 
        
            FV005_WORD_LIBRARY_GV = oWord; 
            
        END; 

        ON EXTCLASSEVENT 'Quit' = 
        BEGIN 
        
            FV005_WORD_LIBRARY_GV = NULL; 
        
        END; 

In my main print routine, I then use the global variable, casting it,
and acessing the Word methods/attributes like so: 

        WinWord!Application(FV005_WORD_LIBRARY_GV).Documents.Open(...) 

        WinWord!Application(FV005_WORD_LIBRARY_GV).WindowState = 2; 

        etc .... 

The code executes fine, no errors, and Word appears correct until you
try using it ... 

Any ideas anyone? 

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