From: Axel <anieden@...>
Date: 2005-06-30T21:15:42+09:00
Subject: win32ole object creation failure

Hello, Rubyists!

I have an example program from a German book on Ruby here, using
win32ole:

require "win32ole"

dlg = WIN32OLE.new("MSComDlg.CommonDialog")
# den Datei-Filter setzen
dlg.filter = "Word documents (*.doc)|*.doc" +
            "|All Files(*.*)|*.*"
dlg.filterIndex = 1
dlg.maxFileSize = 128
file = ""
dlg.showOpen
file = dlg.fileName
exit if file == ""
print "#{file} wurde selektiert"

When I run this (on Windows XP with the Windows Ruby installation
package 1.8.2-15), I get the following error:

C:/temp/bla.rb:3:in `initialize': Failed to create WIN32OLE object from
`MSComDlg.CommonDialog' (WIN32OLERuntimeError)
    HRESULT error code:0x80040112
      Class is not licensed for use     from C:/temp/bla.rb:3:in `new'
        from C:/temp/bla.rb:3

Any ideas what could cause the problem?

Kind regards! ------------- Axel          <><