RE: [rt.cpan.org #70665] Win32::OLE and OFFLB

Fri Sep 02 10:20:17 2011: Request 70665 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by [email protected]
       Queue: Win32-OLE
     Subject: RE: [rt.cpan.org #70665] Win32::OLE and OFFLB
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 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70665 >


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, [email protected] via RT <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: [email protected] via RT <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [rt.cpan.org #70665] Win32::OLE and OFFLB
> To: [email protected]
> 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
> 
> 
> 
>