win32utils devel - Sep 2004 - win32-shortcut problems

Hi all,

I''ve started porting the Win32::Shortcut Perl module over to Ruby. 
I''ve
done some initial work and committed it to CVS (look under win32utils - I
goofed and made a toplevel dir as well - it''s empty).

Anyway, everything compiles fine, but when I do "s = Shortcut.new" I
get a
weird error:

test.rb:11:in `initialize'': undefined method `new'' for
false:FalseClass
(NoMethodError)

The initialize method is copied from the _Instance(...) part of the
Shortcut.xs file.

Any ideas as to what''s wrong?

Regards,

Dan

Hi Dan,

> Hi all,
> 
> I''ve started porting the Win32::Shortcut Perl module over to Ruby.
I''ve
> done some initial work and committed it to CVS (look under win32utils - I
> goofed and made a toplevel dir as well - it''s empty).
> 
> Anyway, everything compiles fine, but when I do "s =
Shortcut.new" I get a
> weird error:
> 
> test.rb:11:in `initialize'': undefined method `new'' for
false:FalseClass
> (NoMethodError)
> 
> The initialize method is copied from the _Instance(...) part of the
> Shortcut.xs file.
> 
> Any ideas as to what''s wrong?
> 
You have missed two things.

1) call CoInitialize before call CoCreateInstance like this:
   hres = CoInitialize(NULL);
   if(SUCCEEDED(hres)){
     hres = CoCreateInstance(
       CLSID_ShellLink,
       NULL,
       CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
       IID_IShellLink,
       (void **) &ptr->ilink
       );
   }

2) define error class cShortcutError after rb_define_class_under like this:
   cShortcutError =
rb_define_class_under(mWin32,"ShortcutError",rb_eStandardError);


Cheers,

Park Heesob