| Title | Can not run applications which use DDE to open Excel |
| Date Updated | 8/1/2001 |
| Versions affected | Automize 3.5 and later |
| OS affected | All Windows |
| Description | User submitted issue: Application that opens Excel via DDE commands cannot be launched via the Script in version 3.5 or the 'Windows Command' in version 4.0 |
| Causes | The Automize 3.5 script and 4.0 'Windows Command' features keeps control of the application that is launched, so that it can terminate it, if the wait time exceeds. An Excel DDE application does not allow itself to be controlled externally. |
| Solution | 1) Try the 'Command' feature to launch the
executable 2) Try to launch executable containing DDE commands from a batch file with the 'start' command (see help on this command. Syntax is different between 95/98 andNT/2000). Do not use the /w (wait) switch. This way the DDE Executable is not controlled. start G:\test\test.bat or start Title G:\test\test.bat These were our recommended solutions. No feedback provided by user if it worked. |
| Output Log | Nothing written to Output Log |
| Debug Log | No information provided by user |