From: David Mullet <david.mullet@...>
Date: 2008-01-27T11:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: win32ole.AppActivate broken in VISTA?

Robert Batzinger wrote:
> I have been trying to use the win32ole module on Vista. However, the
>  AppActivate method always fails regardless of whether simple or
>  root-relative address are used in the following program. The module
>  appears to be working well on all other versions of Windows. Does
>  anyone know the fix to this?
> 
>  require 'win32ole'
>  wsh = WIN32OLE.new('Wscript.Shell')
>  if wsh.AppActivate('notepad')
>      print 'Success'
>  else
>      print 'Fail'
>  end
> 
>  BTW Just typing the word notepad works at the DOS prompt and the
>  WIN32OLE does open the OLE object
> 
> ================
> Bob Batzinger
> Arkfriends
> South Bend, Indiana

Bob-

For what it's worth, your code works for me using Ruby 1.8.6 on Windows 
Vista Home Premium.

David
http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com
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