From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2009-09-03T06:58:48+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.6 p287 and p383 crashing in WIN32OLE_EVENT.message_loop


On Sep 2, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:

> <snip>
>
>> It can't seem to load a few of its dependencies like "windows/com".
>>
>> 1. The gem doesn't have a dependency on the windows-api gem.
>>
>> 2. The windows-api gem, after installation, doesn't have a lot of the
>> files that pr-win32ole wants to load.
>
> There is no gem for pr-win32ole. All you should need to do is:
>
> gem install windows-pr
>
> That should install win32-api and windows-api automatically. It should
> then "just work" as long as RUBYOPT is set. If it doesn't, please give
> me a specific error you're getting.

Well, I ran 'gem build pr-winole32.gemspec' so it was easy to install.

I now have everything up and going. When I run my program, it crashes  
on a call to WIN32OLE_EVENT.message_loop.

starting...
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pr-win32ole-1.0.0/lib/pr/win32ole.rb: 
701:in `[]=': index 8 out of string (IndexError)
         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pr-win32ole-1.0.0/lib/pr/ 
win32ole.rb:701:in `ole_val2variant'
         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pr-win32ole-1.0.0/lib/pr/ 
win32ole.rb:4481
         from (eval):3:in `call'
         from (eval):3:in `DispatchMessage'
         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pr-win32ole-1.0.0/lib/pr/ 
win32ole.rb:5034:in `ole_msg_loop'
         from C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pr-win32ole-1.0.0/lib/pr/ 
win32ole.rb:5039:in `message_loop'
         from //.host/Shared Folders/My Documents/NetBeansProjects/ 
ChuckKit/lib/main.rb:165

If that trace looks crappy, view it here:  http://pastie.org/603650

I need to point out that it is crashing way earlier than the stock  
WIN32OLE stuff. This test program works just fine using MRI's WIN32  
classes. I figured once I had everything up and going I could trigger  
that event which was causing my other code to bomb out.

cr