From: Dirk Meijer <hawkman@...>
Date: 2008-01-27T22:09:26+09:00
Subject: Re: win32ole.AppActivate broken in VISTA?

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i'm on vista ultimate, and when notepad's allready on, it switches to the
notepad screen and prints "succes"
but when notepad's not activated, i get a "fail" as well.

2008/1/27, David Mullet <david.mullet@gmail.com>:
>
> 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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>
>


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