Thanks for the report. Should be fixed now in source tree.
As a workaround, you should be able to use the com_get,
com_set and com_invoke functions.
Michael.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Philip Nienhuis<pr.nienh...@hccnet.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the Octave-3.2.0_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.3.0_setup.exe package, the
> following doesn't work:
>
> ===================<screen copy:>===================================
> octave-3.2.0.exe:1> excelapp = actxserver ("Excel.Application")
> excelapp =
>
> <COM object _Application (0x0x269e9c)>
>
> octave-3.2.0.exe:2> wb = excelapp.Workbooks.Add ()
> error: can't perform indexing operations for octave_com_object type
> octave-3.2.0.exe:3>
> ===================</screen copy>====================================
>
> These commands work OK on the same PC in the (deprecated, yes I know)
> octave-3.0.3VC package (that I still have installed).
>
> Trying out some more COM commands shows that starting the ActiveX server
> goes OK, but AFAICS any subsequent COM command fails with:
>
> error: can't perform indexing operations for octave_com_object type
>
>
> BTW I'm writing some basic xlsread/xlswrite-like .m files for Excel R/W
> based on Michael Goffioul's example (I'll call them xls2oct.m &
> oct2xls.m unless someone has better suggestions.)
> I need to build in some more error checking before I can submit them.
>
>
> My system (if this info is needed at all):
> Intel DG43NB mobo, Intel Core Duo 2,5 Ghz, Windows XP SP3, 2GB RAM
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip Nienhuis
>
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