Re: [Caml-list] [OCAMOLE] problem with guid

["Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>]

> I found the following problem with the last ocamole-pre library:
>
> # #load "ocamole.cma";;
> # open Ocamole;;
> # guid_of_string;;
> - : string -> Ocamole.guid = <fun>
>
> Then, guid_of_string "something" crashes the runtime interpreter.
> I have the log of the system, if that can be of any help.

Thanks for the report.
OCamole haven't yet been tested under the toplevel.

> The function add_label should allow to create a new label object to
> the (list of shapes of some) slide. However, I do not manage to find
> what are the "orientation:guid" parameter possible values ?

Note that ocamole can't really answer to theses questions. You should try to
figure out how you would to that in VB and then translate into OCaml ( if
find somewhere the PowerPoint VBScript Help )

> guid_of_string and string_of_guid seem to be the only available
> functions to manipulate guid, but then I discovered that the
> string_of_guid crashes.

True.
a GUID is an unique identifier ( something like this :
{DA936B63-AC8B-11D1-B6E5-00A0C90F2744} ) which can represent a COM class
or... something else... There is a also way to retreive the guid from an
name ( such as "Excel.Application" ) : "guid_of_progid"

> I tried to retrieve information on already created objects, but most
> of the call to functions with return types "guid" failed (some
> exception was thrown from the COM side, stating "Bad return type", or
> something similar). Other methods worked (that is, any that does not
> need or return a guid), by the way.
>
> I suspect that the olegen possibly created a wrong COM interface here.

Seems like it does not come from the the generated interface but from the
type checking of returned values.
I'll invistigate this point.

Bye
Nicolas Cannasse

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