From: Junkone <junkone1@...>
Date: 2008-01-09T06:59:59+09:00
Subject: Re: prob only with ruby

On Jan 8, 4:00 pm, John Wells <li...@sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 3:10 PM, Junkone <junko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello
> > i am using ole automation to drive some of my processes. the following
> > code would run properly in other languages like vbscript. but it fails
> > only in ruby
> > application = WIN32OLE.new("Broker.Application")
>
> >   analysis=application.analysis()
>
> > analysis.Filter(0, "market") = 3  # use nasdaq only          << ruby
> > does not allow setting values like this. it errors syntax error,
> > unexpected '=', expecting $end. however this assignmetn is valid in
> > vbscript for the same object. is there any other way of doing it.
>
> I'm not a vbscript guy, but did you try:
>
> myvar = analysis.Filter(0, "market")
> myvar = 3
>
> ?

Nope. it does not work
b=analysis.Filter(0, "market") #= 3  # use nasdaq only
       b=3
It does not change anything at all.
However if i ran a similar code in vbscript, it does the magic.

set application = CreateObject("Broker.Application")
application.visible=1
set analysis=application.analysis()
analysis.Filter( 0, "market" ) = 3

so something is wrong with the way ruby does automation.