From: "Robert C. Martin" Date: 2002-03-02T22:28:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Using Win32OLE with Excel leaves Excel process hanging On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:48:39 GMT, Christophe Broult wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Robert C. Martin >> [mailto:u.n.c.l.e.b.o.b.@.o.b.j.e.c.t.m.e.n.t.o.r.d.o.t.c.o.m] >> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:08 AM >> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org >> Subject: Re: Using Win32OLE with Excel leaves Excel process hanging >[...] >> >> No, an Excel process, or some Excel resource. >> >> >What Ruby version are you running? >> >> 1.6 >> >> >My "old" 1.6.3 has no problems alike. >> >Neither with excel nor with word. >> >> Can you start up an Excel program, then exit the ruby program leaving >> Excel running? That's what seems to hang me up. > >I believe you should call a .Quit method on your Excel object... Except that I want to leave it running so that the user can look at the graph. I want the *user* to quit excel. Robert C. Martin | "Uncle Bob" Object Mentor Inc.| unclebob @ objectmentor . com PO Box 5757 | Tel: (800) 338-6716 565 Lakeview Pkwy | Fax: (847) 573-1658 | www.objectmentor.com Suite 135 | | www.XProgramming.com Vernon Hills, IL, | Training and Mentoring | www.junit.org 60061 | OO, XP, Java, C++, Python | "One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'" -- Carl Sagan