jrsimmon:

Okay, then. Three final useless suggestions before I go to bed. ;^)

1) How about have a (generous) timeout on the operation and assume it failed if you reach it? (Course, then you'd have to kill the job, and "graceful shutdown" is no longer on the menu.)

2) Assuming the problem is a dialog box hanging you up, maybe a perl program that would "notice" new windows on the server and nudge your script if it happens to belong to Excel?

3) Go all out and hook into the debugger hooks (the ones that ask you if you want to debug the application yadda yadda), make a perl module that handles it, post it on CPAN, and reap the glory? ;^D

(I was originally going to give you a different three suggestions. The third one was "Profit", but I couldn't figure out the second one.....)

...roboticus

In reply to Re^5: Capturing excel macro errors by roboticus
in thread Capturing excel macro errors by jrsimmon

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.