Re: Major New User Problems

Possibly a silly suggestion but is the method case sensitive?

close != Close?

Josh


>From: Barbara X <[email protected]>
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>I am new to Jawin.  So far I have been able run the demos and they work
>fine. I hava a COM object that I can use from VB and now I need to use it
>from Java. I have been able to access two methods in this COM object, one
>returns a String the other an Array.  So far so good.
>
>My problem is, I have another method in the COM object that is returning a
>reference to a DBASE (dbf/cdx) file.  From VB, once I have the Object back
>I
>can do anything to the object I need, such as seek in the file, retrieve a
>record, or Close it. Works in VB.
>
>It is not working from Jawin. Calling getClass( ) I can tell that Jawin is
>returning something of type DispatchPtr. I have even tried to cast it to
>Object just to be sure. Given the following code, the second line will not
>compile. Close() is a method of the dbServer created in the OpneDB( )
>method.
>
>Object oDbf = (Object) app.invoke("OpenDB", "customer.dbf");
>oDbf.invoke("close");
>
>Can anyone shed some light on this for me?   Is this a limitation of Jawin
>or should I be using something other than DispatchPtr?
>
>Thanks for any advice.
>
>Barbara
>
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