Hi I am working with Perl Version 5.8.8. I develop programs for a very big company so that I am forced to use this version. I am confronted with a serious problem and I hope that somebody of you can help me. Thanks so far. I am using Tcl-Tk and Word. I try to insert OLE-Objects in Word while Tcl-TK-Widgets are open. But the Program gets stuck.The same effect occurs when I call the Windows-Message-Box ($mw->messageBox) before I try to insert OLE-Objects. I've wrote a very short code-example to demonstrate the effect. The only thing you have to do is to create a test.dat - File in c:\tmp with any content. (Or you modify the code accordingly) When you press the first button, the widget will be closed and all runs well. But when you restart the program and press the second button, the program get stuck. For every hint I would be deeply grateful. Here the code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Tk;
use Win32::OLE;
my $mw = MainWindow->new;


$mw->Button(-text => "Run (Closed  Widget)",
            -command => sub { $mw->destroy() })->pack;
$mw->Button(-text => "Run (Opened Widget)",
            -command => sub { oleTest() })->pack;

MainLoop;

oleTest();


sub oleTest
{
    my $word = CreateObject Win32::OLE 'Word.Application' or die $!;
    
    my $document = $word->Documents->Add();
    
    print "Before OLE\n";
    $document->InlineShapes->AddOLEObject("EMBED",'C:\tmp\test.dat'); 
+# this can be ANY test.dat
    print "After OLE\n";
    $document->SaveAs('c:\tmp\test.docx');    
    $document->activewindow->{'Visible'}="True";
}

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