From: "Moran, Craig M (BAH)" <MoranCM@...>
Date: 2004-02-11T04:53:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Using ole_free for Excel on W2K (Ruby 1.8.0-10)

Thank you!  excel.Quit works instead of excel.Application.Quit.  Silly
mistake on my behalf.  I don't know the difference between the two methods
either.

-----Original Message-----
From: Osuka Adartse
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 2:32 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: Using ole_free for Excel on W2K (Ruby 1.8.0-10)


Moran, Craig M (BAH) wrote:
> This is my first post.  My apologies if I do something wrong.  I am using
shk!!
> #/usr/bin/env ruby
> #  Title:  TestAPP.rb
> require 'win32ole'
> def onCmdTest(sender, sel, ptr)
> 	excel = WIN32OLE.new("excel.application")
> 	excel['Visible'] = TRUE
> 	excel.Quit
> 	excel.ole_free
> 	TestExcel()
> end
> def TestExcel()
> 	excel = WIN32OLE.new("excel.application")
> 	excel['Visible'] = TRUE
> 	excel.Application.Quit
why the diff here? if excel.quit then it doesn't lets excel wasting mem 
'til closing the gui
> 	excel.ole_free
> end
> # end TestAPP.rb

I just test it, if excel.Application.quit --> excel.quit then your 
problem doesn't appear, but I don't really know what's the difference 
between those methods