From: walter@...
Date: 2003-04-19T04:43:57+09:00
Subject: Win32OLE help


Can someone point me to some more information on using Win32OLE.  I 
have looked for several hours and can't seem to find what should be 
an obvious answer.  I should mention that I have never used OLE 
before.

What I want to do is launch InternetExplorer in such a way that it 
will open the same window if called more than once and the command is 
a Post command.

it is very easy to do a GET in a new IE window such as the following:

require 'win32ole'
ie = WIN32OLE.new('InternetExplorer.Application')
ie.visible = true
ie.navigate('http://url?field=data&field2=data2') 

The OLE docs state that navigate will take optional parameters that 
are of type VARIANT.  One is used to name the window, another is used 
to set the Post Data.  The problem is I just do not know how to set 
them.  It seems so trivial, and yet I am just missing something.

Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks in advance,


Walt

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