Hi all,
I'm a little bit confused about the following behavior of the Win32::OLE Module.
My goal is to print a Word.doc by using Win32::OLE. This is quite simple.
But now I want to be able to select a file from a menu and put some more Information to the file, print it and store the additional information in a DB.

This little example shows the problem:

use strict;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
use Tk;


#### my $mw = MainWindow->new;

my $file = "c:\\TEMP\\test.doc";

my $Word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit'); 
$Word->Documents->Open($file) || die("Unable to open document", Win32:
+:OLE->LastError());
my $last_printer=$Word->{ActivePrinter};
$Word->{ActivePrinter} ='PS2FILE';
$Word->ActiveDocument->PrintOut({
            Background => 0,
            Append     => 0,
            Range      => wdPrintAllDocument,
            Item       => wdPrintDocumentContent,
            Copies     => 1,
            PageType   => wdPrintAllPages,
    });
$Word->{ActivePrinter} = $last_printer;
### MainLoop;
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The upper example works great

use strict;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';
use Tk;


my $mw = MainWindow->new;

my $file = "c:\\TEMP\\test.doc";

my $Word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application', 'Quit'); 
$Word->Documents->Open($file) || die("Unable to open document", Win32:
+:OLE->LastError());
my $last_printer=$Word->{ActivePrinter};
$Word->{ActivePrinter} ='PS2FILE';
$Word->ActiveDocument->PrintOut({
            Background => 0,
            Append     => 0,
            Range      => wdPrintAllDocument,
            Item       => wdPrintDocumentContent,
            Copies     => 1,
            PageType   => wdPrintAllPages,
    });
$Word->{ActivePrinter} = $last_printer;
MainLoop;
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and now it doesn't anymore

The only diffence between them is that I open a Tk MainWindow in the second example. Nothing else. You can bring the second one to run, if you delete either the  $mw = MainwWindow ... or the $Word->{ActivePrinter} ='PS2FILE' line.

So what's going on here ? Why does this OLE-set-a-Active-Printer Action doesn't work with a Tk widget ?

Any suggestions are very welcome ..

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