Dearest monks, I desperately need your wisdom and patience...
     I've been working on NT4 SP6 with Outlook 2000 (9.0.0.2711). My perl program retrieves information from the Outlook object by using the object model provided with the VB editor. So far so good... I need to find whether there's an active Outlook window open. Hence I use the code
$app = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Outlook.Application');.
This code works just fine and provided there actually is a window open, the OLE function returns a reference to that window.
     However, when I try the code with Win98 and Outlook 2000 SR1 (9.0.0.3821), the function always returns nothing (ie undef). This's been driving crazy because I didn't expect the error to be there and I'd been looking elsewhere. Furthermore the function Win32::OLE->new works fine on both versions of Outlook which makes it even more frustrating.
     Has anyone encountered such a problem before ? Please help me out...
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In reply to Another Win32::OLE problem by Foggy Bottoms

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