>What happens if you use a specific document reference in the Add call?
Interesting you should ask.
This old code I'm using would create the new document and get a file handle
for it with FCREATE(), then it would leave the file open to "lock" it to
"avoid surprises". This worked fine in Windows 2000 with VFP 9 SP 1.
Here are my test results with VFP 9 SP 1 in Windows 7:
* In my tests there are no spaces in path or file names, BTW.
cFile = "C:\SomePath\SomeFileThatDoesNotExist.doc"
Test 1:
nHandle = FCREATE(cFile) && 0 byte file created with specified path\name
WITH oMyWord
.documents.Add(cFile) && "Word could not open the document" ;
No temp file created
ENDWITH
Test 2:
* No FCREATE(), no file created
WITH oMyWord
.documents.Add(cFile) && "The document name or path is not valid" ;
No temp file created
ENDWITH
Test 3:
nHandle = FCREATE(cFile) && 0 byte file created with specified path\name
FCLOSE(nHandle)
WITH oMyWord
.documents.Add(cFile) && "Could not open macro storage" ;
4 kb temp Word file ("~$" prepended) with specified path\name
ENDWITH
Test 4:
* Original code that worked in Windows 2000 (Yes, the original call was not
a function call; no parentheses)
nHandle = FCREATE(cFile) && 0 byte file created with specified path\name
WITH oMyWord
.documents.Add && "Could not open macro storage" ;
No temp file created
ENDWITH
Test 5:
* No FCREATE(), no file name && No file created
WITH oMyWord
.documents.Add && "Could not open macro storage" ;
No temp file created
ENDWITH
Test 6:
nHandle = FCREATE(cFile) && 0 byte file created with specified path\name
FCLOSE(nHandle)
WITH oMyWord
.documents.Add && "Could not open macro storage" ;
No temp file created
ENDWITH
In each of these tests, Word created a 1 kb temp file called ~$Normal.dot
in the properly writeable location I've specified in the Word settings for
template files:
C:\Users\kend\My Documents\Office Templates\
Then the error occurs and Word hangs and must be killed in the Task Manager.
After each test I killed Word and deleted any orphaned temp files as well
as any 0 byte word files, and I shut down and restarted VFP.
So, Word at least knows where the template file should be. I assume that
Word actually opens a temp copy of Normal.dot in memory but then cannot do
anything with it before the error occurs.
Also, in the test where the file was initially created, then closed, and
then documents.add(cFile) was called, an actual temporary Word file was
created before the error occurred. There are additional parameters for
documents.Add(), including a template file name, a logical variable for
whether to use a "new template", and an integer variable for, I believe,
"visible". However, when I try:
documents.add(cFile,cTemplatePathandName,.F.,0)
I get a Word (not VFP) "syntax error".
Any suggestions?
Thanks very much for your help, Richard.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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