For those new to Win7 right clicking on the command prompt and select Run as Administrator will solve this problem
Thanks On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Basim Baassiri <ba...@baassiri.ca> wrote: > Has anyone seen this error on windows 7 when registering Autoit.dll > 'The module "AutoItX3.dll" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer > failed with error code 0x80070005" > > I've done the following as my current user which is part of the > Administrators Group on my machine > cd D:\Ruby186\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\watir-1.7.1\lib\watir\ > regsvr32 AutoItX3.dll > > This is the code which led me to the AutoIt problem > > D:\Ruby186\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\watir-1.7.1\lib\watir>irb > irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' > => true > irb(main):002:0> require 'watir' > => true > irb(main):003:0> ie = Watir::Browser.new > => #<Watir::IE:0x5a1aa00 url="about:blank" title=""> > irb(main):004:0> ie.maximize > WIN32OLERuntimeError: unknown OLE server: `AutoItX3.Control' > HRESULT error code:0x800401f3 > Invalid class string > from > D:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.7.1/lib/watir/module.rb:21:in > `initialize' > from > D:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.7.1/lib/watir/module.rb:21:in > `new' > from > D:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.7.1/lib/watir/module.rb:21:in > `autoit' > from > D:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.7.1/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:445:in > `autoit' > from > D:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.7.1/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:442:in > `set_window_state' > from > D:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.7.1/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:418:in > `maximize' > from (irb):4 > from ♥:0 > > > has anyone seen Autoit issue before? Any ideas/recommendations on how to > correct it? > > Basim > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
