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From: Matthias Meier on 20 Jul 2010 05:31
Hello,

the following VBA-Macro works fine:

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Sub Makro1()
Documents.Add "Z:\x y.dotx"
End Sub
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But with tcom:

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package require tcom
set word [::tcom::ref createobject Word.Application]
set docs [$word Documents]
$docs Add "z:/x y.dotx"
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i get the COM-Exception:

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0x800A141F Word was unable to read this document. It may be corrupt.
Try one or more of the following:
* Open and Repair the file.
* Open the file with the Text Recovery converter.
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$docs Open "z:/x y.dotx"
$docs Open "z:/noblank.dotx"
or
$docs Add "z:/noblank.dotx"

works fine.


Where ist the Problem? tcom oder word? Any ideas?

Used versions are
tcl/tk 8.5.8
tkom 3.9
word office2007


Thanks for any help!
Matthias




From: Harald Oehlmann on 21 Jul 2010 07:49
On 20 Jul., 11:31, Matthias Meier <Me...(a)FuH-E.de> wrote:
>         $docs Add "z:/x y.dotx"

Did you try:
$docs Add {z:\x y.dotx}

From: Matthias Meier on 22 Jul 2010 04:00
Harald Oehlmann schrieb:

> Did you try:
> $docs Add {z:\x y.dotx}

Yes - same error message.

Matthias





From: Bruce on 22 Jul 2010 19:45
Matthias Meier wrote:
> Harald Oehlmann schrieb:
>
>> Did you try:
>> $docs Add {z:\x y.dotx}
>
> Yes - same error message.
>
not surprising, both "" and {} are quoting chars for Tcl so the interp
would have removed both and passed a single 'word' to the function,
obviously something further along is doing some kind or reparsing.
It may be a bug in tcom, or possibly just a limitation with the way
the windows com stuff works.

You could try dipping into the edge of quoting hell by trying
to do a double layer of quoting

$docs Add {"z:\x y.dotx"}

in this case the tcl interp will include the " chars as part of the
argument and is may protect the space downstream

(and if you filename is actually in a variable, then the {} will
prevent substitution so something like

$docs Add "\"$filename\""

may be required...

good luck,
Bruce
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