Win32ole issues

TIG

disable BugSplat and try to find the reason of crash (usually some COM things not properly initialized/finalized )
How do I disable Bugsplat ?

The entire block of code is all as I posted [no more needed!], for a 64bit initial almost instant Bugsplat as Excel tries to Quit, or when adjusted with the additional ole_free..=nil..GC.start etc it Quits OK, but eventually Bugsplats when Sketchup is closed... so where'd a COM issue come from ?
I'm afraid that Win32ole is a bit beyond my normal level of programming - it was relatively easy to get the 32bit version working as needed as a simple extension of Ruby - bloody 64bit Windows !

To complicate matters I don't have regular access access to a 64bit Win7 PC to test ideas on either

daiku

Hi Tig.

I tried this on my machine (Vista64), and it does not bug splat. I had to add require('win32ole') to get it to work.
One thing I noticed is that I get a popup from Excel asking if I want to save the changes I made. If I let that sit unanswered for a while, I get a "server busy" popup from Sketchup, saying "this action cannot be completed because the other program is busy".... Maybe you want to try xls.saveas("whatever.xlsx")

TIG

daiku

Thank's for the info.
Sorry... but the code is only snippets; I missed out the line
xls.SaveAs(xlsp) that's needed if you reset a value...
I've edited the earlier code to include that now !
If you retest it with the full code is it OK ?
Does it break with the 32bit version of the code, that ends at excel.Quit() ?
Your lack of Bugsplats is puzzling...
Perhaps my client has something else running that doesn't like these interactions ???
Are you on v8M2 64bit Win7 ?

tbd

@unknownuser said:

How do I disable Bugsplat ?

iirc you need a debug=1 registry and then http://www.ishouldbeallowedtothink.com/suwiki/index.php?title=Debug

didnt checked if it still works in the latest SU

sometimes sketchup.exe still exists in the background even if there is no UI. check with a task manager.

daiku

Works just the same. I now get the 'file already exists/are you sure?' dialog from excel, and if I delay, it will still cause the 'server busy' popup in sketchup. But no Bugsplat. You may want to try xls.close(1), which will always save and not ask. That will avoid the 'server busy' popup.

SU v8M2, Win VistaSP2 64.

daiku

And no, I did not use any of the 64-bit code you put in the second code window.

daiku

My Notebook is running Win7-64. It runs exactly the same there. No Bugsplat.

TIG

Thanks, again!
I should have used 'Save' anyway, as I wanted to update the same file !
Doh!
Strange that you can't break it whatever you do ?

Dan Rathbun

In the registry there is a "BugSplat" subkey under each versions app key. (Not to be confused with the main "BugSplat" subkey under "Software", that keeps statistics.)

My v7 settings has an DWORD attribute "Enabled" that has the value 0.

There may be a commandline switch to run SU without BugSplat. Perhaps Jim knows?

daiku

No Bugsplats at all.