From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2009-08-29T05:11:14+09:00
Subject: WIN32OLE.ole_show_help problem

Hi,

ruby 1.8.6 (2009-03-31 patchlevel 368) [i386-mswin32_90]
Vista Home Premium
Excel 2007

Here's the documentation for WIN32OLE.ole_show_help in win32ole.c:

/*
 *  call-seq:
 *     WIN32OLE.ole_show_help(obj [,helpcontext])
 * 
 *  Displays helpfile. The 1st argument specifies WIN32OLE_TYPE
 *  object or WIN32OLE_METHOD object or helpfile.
 *
 *     excel = WIN32OLE.new('Excel.Application')
 *     typeobj = excel.ole_type
 *     WIN32OLE.ole_show_help(typeobj)
 */

When I tried to run that sample I got:

irb(main):005:0> excel = WIN32OLE.new('Excel.Application')
=> #<WIN32OLE:0x45fdf08>
irb(main):006:0> typeobj = excel.ole_type
WIN32OLERuntimeError: unknown property or method `ole_type'
    HRESULT error code:0x80020006
      Unknown name.
        from (irb):6:in `method_missing'
        from (irb):6

Any ideas?

Regards,

Dan