[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell and Automation

Gunther, Thanks for the heads-up. I might need to interface with Excel in the future. Michael On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:14 PM, GŸuenther Schmidt wrote:

Dear Michael,

sorry too, for not telling you sooner that meanwhile I found out how to get it working, I hope you did not spend too much time trying on your end.

It had to do with the context in which these components are initialized.

Once you switch to LocalProcess (as opposed to AnyProcess) in coCreateInstance everything works fine and rather smoothly. The defaults in createObject do not work for every kind of object that you do want to instantiate, certainly not Excel.

Of course having an old, but still fairly current manual also helps.

Good luck with your projects.

Günther

Michael Snoyman schrieb:

Gunther,

Sorry for not getting back to you on your previous e-mail, I've been swamped.

The reason I didn't put up an example was specifically because of the error you mention. I was hoping to get a chance to use the COM bindings in Python to see if I got the same thing. For the life of me I can't figure out how to get started with Excel and Haskell. Sorry I can't be more useful at this time.

Michael

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:56 PM, G?uenther Schmidt wrote:

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Hi Michael,

for some reason createObject "Excel.Application" throws an "Interface not supported" error.

Can you help me out here?

Günther