The Problem:
The script crashes whenever I call the FilePageSetupHeader method on an MS Project OLE object.

The Code:
(simplified down to just show the error)

use strict;

use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Variant;

my $file = "C:\\blah\\test.mpp";

print "Opening " . "$file \n";     
my $app = Win32::OLE->GetObject($file)
    or die "Couldn't open project" .  Win32::OLE->LastError();

$app->{visible} = 1;

$app->FilePageSetupHeader({
    Name         => 'Name',
    Text         => 'test project',
    Alignment     => '1'
    });

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Other Info:
I'm able to open MS Project files, read/write the data, and resave them without any problem. I used Microsoft's oleviewer.exe to find the method names and here is the MSDN page for this method.

References:
I've used the following information to get me this far:
Microsoft Project and Perl Node
Activestate's OLE with Perl page.
Perl.com's Automating Windows Applications with OLE article.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Can anyone at least verify it? I'm running Windows XP with SP2.

Thanks in advance.

-----------------------------------
Washizu
Odd Man In: Guns and Game Theory

In reply to MS Project, OLE, and the FilePageSetupHeader method by Washizu

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