Thu Sep 01 14:43:54 2011: Request 70665 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by j...@activestate.com
Queue: Win32-OLE
Subject: RE: [rt.cpan.org #70665] Win32::OLE and OFFLB
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Requestors: conversecoroll...@yahoo.com
Status: new
Ticket <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
