Re: [Pharo-users] Automation of MS Office from Pharo

[Tomaž Turk]

Thanks, Peter. I checked out the Outlook COM interface, noticed that the 
MailItem.HTMLBody property returns a string, which is implemented as 
BSTR in COM (more on this here: 
https://bytecomb.com/vba-internals-string-variables-and-pointers-in-depth/).

I tested the maximum lengths of strings with Word and my images crash 
under these circumstances:
- Pharo 8.0 64 bit when returning ByteString is longer than 16.379 
characters
- Pharo 8.0 32 bit when returning ByteString is longer than 260.080 
characters (approximately).

64 bit image crashes without any warning, however the 32 bit one crashes 
with


I presume this is the same behaviour as you report, Peter. I'm attaching 
the crash.dmp from 32 bit image. I believe that the crash happens when 
calling COMDispatchInstance>>propertyNamed: with the lengthy string to 
be returned.

Pablo, I hope you have some time to check this, my knowledge ends 
somewhere here ... :-|

Thanks and best wishes,
Tomaz




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