Perl and MS Project

PerliKnight has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,
Can't get this

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

my $app = Win32::OLE->GetObject("c:/test.mpp") or die "Couldn't open p
+roject: $!";

my $project = $app->{Projects}->Item(1);
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to work and get back

Can't locate object method "Item" via package "test.mpp" (perhaps you 
+forgot to load "test.mpp"?) at
 project1.pl line 7.
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Anyone know what might be wrong?
It's on XP, Perl 5.8.2, and the Win32 stuff is all there as far as I know, as is the dummy project file.
Thanks,
David

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Re: Perl and MS Project by Wonko the sane (Curate) on Mar 23, 2004 at 13:29 UTC
Hello, I have never used any of these packages, but the error you are getting Is very much like the error you would get if the string 'test.mpp' was the value of "$app->{Projects}". In other words I think you are trying to call a method on a string value. This code produces a similar error. `#!/usr/local/bin/perl5.6.0 -w use strict; my $app = { Projects => 'test.mpp' }; my $r = $app->{Projects}->Item(1);` [download] Hope that helps. Wonko	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Perl and MS Project by PerliKnight (Acolyte) on Mar 23, 2004 at 18:31 UTC
...not really. Not sure what you're getting at? That code was lifted from another bit of the Monastery and since I've got other Win32 things running just fine, I kind of expected it just to work. So either the code is wrong or I've something missing from my PC but am not sure which it is... Thanks, David	[reply]