Robin-
The file definitely exists. Also, the code works as expected on XP
without SP2
and also on Windows 2003. I'd assumed that it was a "security issue"
introduced
when I installed SP2. However, I'll take a look at the installation of
MS Office
(the code also doesn't work with Excel files). Perhaps there is some
issue there.
Thanks
Kieran
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Dunn [mailto:robin@alldunn.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 1:00 PM
To: wxPython-users@lists.wxwidgets.org
Subject: Re: [wxPython-users] Problems using wx.FileType and wx.Execute
to open an MS Word document.
Owens, Kieran wrote:
All-
I'm having problems using wx.FileType to open a Word document on
wxPython 2.4.2.4 on Win XP (SP2). I've included the piece of code
which
does the opening below but calling it with filename equal to
'c:\\TEST.DOC' causes a message box with the following message to be
displayed "DDE data request failed; a transaction failed".
It works here. Does c:\test.doc exist? Perhaps there is an install
problem with winword?
Calling the
same piece of code on a file with an extension of .eml works just
fine,
opening Outlook express as intended.
Because wx.Execute doesn't have to deal with DDE in that case, it just
executes a programwhich is much simpler to do.
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Robin Dunn
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