[rt.cpan.org #63882] Problem with tk_getopenfile and Win32::OLE::Const

[email protected] ("Jan Dubois via RT") Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:14:11 -0500

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Mon Dec 13 20:14:10 2010: Request 63882 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by JDB
       Queue: Win32-OLE
     Subject: Problem with tk_getopenfile and Win32::OLE::Const
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       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63882 >


The standard file dialogs in Windows only work in single threaded
apartment mode, so you have to include the following line immediately
after the "use Win32::OLE" line before doing any OLE operations:

BEGIN { Win32::OLE->Initialize(Win32::OLE::COINIT_OLEINITIALIZE) }