From: Miklos Hollender <miklos.hollender@...>
Date: 2006-06-21T20:39:23+09:00
Subject: Trouble with WIN32OLE obj, methods that return other objects

Dear Friends,

Is is possible in Ruby to instantiate WIN32OLE objects that are returned 
by a method call on other WIN32OLE objects?

The situation is the following. There is a 
NsComCom2.CommunicationComponent
 OLE (COM) object (for communicating with a Navision ERP system). It has 
a CreateoutMessage (yes, misspelled, it's Microsoft, so don't be 
surprised) method that returns another OLE object (a message object). So 
I

So I do

cc2 = WIN32OLE.new("NsComCom2.CommunicationComponent")
and it works fine.

now, I would try to

msg = cc2.CreateoutMessage("Message queue://.\private$\NIF")

and it does *something* but it does not instantiate the right object in 
the msg variable, because the methods I'd expect msg to have are not 
available. Yes, I know there are some casing quirks, so I tried 
createoutMessage, createoutmessage, create_out_message, createOutMessage 
and whatever, but it never worked. mgs.class just returns WIN32OLE.

Any ideas?

An Excel example will just do fine - say, call a method on a Sheet that 
returns a Range object into a variable, and then call some method of the 
Range object instance.

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