Hello all, I am writing a reporting application that uses word's COM interface. I recently found myself needing to insert a chart into the document, and the "AddChart" method seemed ideal ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226069(v=office.12).aspx). The code is this: image_chart = word.ActiveWindow.Selection.InlineShapes.AddChart(Type=constants.xlBarClustered) chart = image_chart.Chart chart.ChartData.Activate() ... fill chart with data ...
This runs fine on my laptop machine (Windows 7) and a little excel window pops up with some basic starting data that my application modifies. I deployed it to our Windows 2003 server and I was dismayed to find that it failed. The issue was that image_chart had no Chart attribute, no exception is being raised when AddChart is called and an object is returned as normal, just without a Chart (and thus no ability to edit the data?). I did a little digging around and it seems that excel is spawned when I call AddChart, but it quits a second or two afterwards for no apparent reason, according to the event viewer "Excel terminated normally after a runtime of 1 seconds". The code is being called from a Celery task queue (so it is called from within a thread), and this has not been an issue before - the code is incredibly COM heavy. However when I spin up IDLE and use AddChart on a blank document the Excel window appears as normal and does not close. Has anyone encountered this before, or can think of a reason why this might be happening? ~Tom
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