Win32ole used to work in 1.8, fails in 1.9 - help

Ruby
1

here is my code that fails in 1.9…it used to show a popup under
windows

require ‘win32ole’

class Testnet
def self.popup(msg)
wsh = WIN32OLE.new(‘WScript.Shell’)
wsh.popup(msg, 0, “TESTNET POPUP”)
end
end

2

I should add windows is windows XP, sp3

Joe

3

Works for me.

I’m running 1.9.2p180 on Windows XP sp3.

What error are you getting?

4

Worked when I changed:
def self.popup(msg)
To:
def popup(msg)

5

Worked for me in the first way.

6

perhaps the local var wsh is going out of scope when the method ends ??

perhaps:

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require ‘win32ole’
class Testnet

def initialize()
@wsh = WIN32OLE.new(‘WScript.Shell’)
end

def popup(msg)
@wsh.popup(msg, 0, “TESTNET POPUP”)
end

end # class

tn = Testnet.new()
tn.popup(“This is a test message.”)

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Also, sometimes if the text message passed to Windows API UI functions,
does not resolve to a valid string, they can fail silently.
You could add some validation code to the popup() method, before calling
the WSH popup function.

?