Rich wrote: > If there are any professional consultants reading this list, I would be able > to get my company to pay for a solution to this problem. Codeweavers provides paid support, but this particular problem might be more expensive than you want to tackle. > I have a VB 6 application that opens documents externally for editing. From > within the program, you choose a type such as 'Text Document' or 'OpenOffice > 1.1 Text Document' (which come from the registry, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT). This > type is used to determine the program which will be used for editing. > > When the calling program tries to open the editing program, the calling > program always crashes with run time error 31027 / H8004000A, which > translates to VB error "Not able to bind to the source". > >Unfortunately I have to run with WINEDLLOVERRIDES=ole32,oleaut32,rpcrt4=n to >get the app to run at all... > >I have tried installing a variety of word processors inside of Wine >including OpenOffice 1.1 and 2.0, and Abiword, in hopes that a different >word processor would be able to successfully communicate with my VB app. But >that does not help, the same error still occurs. Did you try Microsoft Word 97? You need some Microsoft word processor installed in Wine, probably. (Wine's wordpad should be good enough, but it probably lacks the needed COM interface.) BTW, for anyone else reading this, I bet the VB app is doing something like this: http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=3700 - Dan -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
