Re: [wxperl-users] Wx::ActiveX GetOLE (again) -- with success though!

[Eric W. <scr...@gm...>]

# from Mark Dootson
# on Sunday 10 September 2006 02:28 pm:

>As a temp fix assuming you are using wxWidgets 2.6.x or later
>you can comment out the three lines for
>SetTransparent()
>CleanUpClasses
>InitializeClasses
>
>for the wxLogTrace stuff, you can either comment them out or change
>
>from
>wxLogTrace(wxT('My Message'))
>to
>wxLogTrace('%s', wxT('My Message'))

Thanks, that does get it to build and it seems to still work outside the 
par.  Now we're back to only the one (original) problem.

>With regard to your earlier question (packaging Win32::OLE), have you
>tried simply loading Win32::OLE before you load Wx::ActiveX?

That doesn't seem to help.  The trouble seems to be with these 
LoadLibrary() and GetModuleHandle() calls (windows api?)

And (now that I can actually try it), neither does the suggestion from 
the older thread of using:

  SV *sv = get_sv("PerlApp::Win32_OLE", FALSE);
  hmodule = GetModuleHandle(sv ? SvPV_nolen(sv) : "OLE");

because hmodule == 0

  if (hmodule != 0) {

we never get to the important bit.

But, I managed to follow-up on the rather vague reference to this having 
been fixed before and located the "Try to find using Dynaloader" code 
in Win32::GUI::AxWindow

  http://search.cpan.org/src/LROCHER/Win32-GUI-AxWindow-0.07/AxWindow.xs

And now all is well (except for the many hours which are now dead and 
gone.)

I'll push these changes out to CPAN as soon as I am able (read that as: 
"hey, frustrated programmer in 2007, ping me if I haven't done it 
yet.")

--Eric
-- 
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