Re: Catastrophic OLE Error

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From: Chris Marriott
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 16:20

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In article <31689491.151762072@newsserv.ctp.com>, "Stephen D. Ayers"
<sayer@ctp.com> writes
>I have built a very small OCX using the VC++ 4.1 project Wizard. The
>control supports a single method with no arguments and no return
>value.
>
>The VC++ OLE test container tool works fine. It allows me to invoke
>methods without difficulty.
>
>However, whenever I try invoking methods on the object from VB, VBA
>within Excel, or VC++ clients they all return "OLE Automation error -
>Catastrophic failure" after a successful object create.

OCXs and OLE Automation are NOT the same thing! It sounds as though
you're attempting to use automation on an object which does not expose
automation interfaces.

Chris

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