From: Jeff <cohen.jeff@...>
Date: 2007-03-01T10:19:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32OLE trouble (custom ocx)

On Feb 28, 6:28 pm, Barry Walker <barr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I call any of the methods using .invoke or ._invoke I get the same
> error message.  This error is also the same if the method requires
> arguments or not.
>
> test.rb:6:in 'invoke':method_name (or '_invoke':_invoke)
> (WIN32OLERuntimeError)
>   OLE error code:0 in <Unknown>
>    <No Description>
>   HRESULT error code:0x8000ffff
>    Catastrophic failure  from test.rb:6
>
> Can anyone point me toward the problem?

I'm pretty sure that HRESULT indicates a null pointer error.  My guess
is it's expecting an argument that you're not passing, or something
like that.  What is on line 6 of your script?

Jeff
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