Using COM-objects in Windows XP

2006-08-20 12:24:58 by anonymous

Hi people,

I might have mentioned this in another thread but I really would like a straight answer to the following:

Is noone else having problems using COM-objects in Windows XP? Because: I am. When I try to access COM-objects nothing happens, except for the fact that there's a error-message in my Windows error-logs.

According to this Microsoft page it is "no longer possible" to use COM objects. Or am I getting something wrong?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Bnl%3B909444

So: Are other people here using COM in Windows XP?

Gr,
Paul

2006-08-20 13:18:40 by thesmilyface

What happens if you click on "ShowOptions.vbs"?

Frank

2006-08-21 17:16:10 by anonymous

Hi,

Thanks again for fast your reply :)

ShowOptions.vbs opens a webpage showing options. So that probably means that there's nothing wrong with my COM-objects right? :)

In that case the problem might have something to do with Apache then. I'll search the net once more then.

Thanks

2006-08-21 17:18:03 by zagrad

I forgot to login ;)

Anyway: what I wanted to add: more information according to solving this problem is always welcome ofcourse (if you have any).

Gr,
Paul

2006-08-21 20:18:33 by thesmilyface

>ShowOptions.vbs opens a webpage showing options. So that
>probably means that there's nothing wrong with my COM-objects
>right? :)
Yes. Then is all alright with PDFCreator. :-)
Check also the other scripts. Use drag'n drop with Convert2pdf.vbs. Drag a file (*.txt, *.doc etc) and drop it on Convert2pdf.vbs.

Frank

2006-08-26 14:39:20 by zagrad

So what could be wrong then?

Let's see: I have been able now to invoke Excel using the COM-interface via PHP. So there is nothing wrong with my usage. I have granted the web-user all access to the COM-objects in Windows (that was my former problem).

Anyway: Now I'm back at trying to create a PDF via PHP.
I have created the simplest script possible in PHP:

$PDFC = New COM("PDFCreator.clsPDFCreator") or die('Error: Couldnt start');

$PDFC->cStart("/NoProcessingAtStartup");
$PDFC->cClose();

die('end of script');
?>

What happens? Well, after the cStart-action the script just hangs there and does nothing. When I then kill the process in my Windows processes-list, the script continues and the servers tells me the following:

Warning: (null)(): Invoke() failed: Couldn't execute RPC. in D:\HomeFTP\MILO\site\site1.1\testing\ComTest.php on line 7

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\HomeFTP\MILO\site\site1.1\testing\ComTest.php on line 9

So: anyone got any more idea's? I just have to get this thing to work !

2006-08-26 19:30:11 by zagrad

I thought: maybe it works when I execute
$PDFC->cPrintPDFCreatorTestpage();

But now I get the error-msg:
Ghostscript error: '%1'!

So... What can I do with that message? Shouldn't %1 be the error-message of GhostScript itself??