Robert, I feel your pain. Although is a huge pain in the arse, I found that by creating wrappers in .NET for the COM object I wanted to use, I was able to get them working properly in CF. I've also found that a lot of the time CFMX doesn't like the type of variables returned by COM and vice-versa. Basically I just write a wrapper that only passes the minimum amount of data between CF and COM. i.e. if I want to get a word count of a doc using word, I'll put all the logic inside the wrapper, so the only thing CF has to pass to it is the filename. (Even hard-coding the filename when possible, so CF really only needs to trigger it.)
Btw. Didn't you get the memo from MM that said 'COM was dead'? j/k Adam Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division -----Original Message----- From: Robert Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:28 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Com and CFMX Yeah, I gave up trying to get it to work. Guess I am moving over to ASP for this part of the application. Thanks! Robert Bailey Famous for nothing -----Original Message----- From: Frank Mamone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Com and CFMX It helped in the senses that before the updater the COM was totally unusable. Now it's somewhat usable. Bottom line is that it's not totally fixed yet. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:51 PM Subject: RE: Com and CFMX > even the updater did not help the server, ugh > > Thanks! > Robert Bailey > Famous for nothing > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Mamone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:54 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Com and CFMX > > > Updater 2 fixed alot of issues but there's still one for me where it doesn't > release the object from memory for a few seconds. Not a real issue if your > object is multi-threaded but a problem for me as the object I'm using is > not. So ASP it is for the COM stuff. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:39 PM > Subject: RE: Com and CFMX > > > > there is info on this in the known issues lists at macromedia.com > > > > D > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Robert Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:12 PM > > >To: CF-Talk > > >Subject: Com and CFMX > > > > > > > > >So running the same scripts under CFMX and CF5 server, they do not work > > >under CFMX. So I am guessing the CFMX is having some problems > > >communicating > > >with com objects. Any work arounds or has MM addressed this issue? Any > > >pointers would be very welcomed, as I really need to be able > > >to work with > > >com objects within CFMX and it is a little disappointing that > > >I am unable to > > >:( > > > > > >Thanks! > > >Robert Bailey > > >Famous for nothing > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
