[AccessD] Preventing Extra Excel instances SOLVED

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Oct 27 08:35:25 CDT 2005


John, that take annoying to a new level... the MS application actually
baling!  Now it becomes your responsibility to create and perform the error
checking.... 

Jim 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Preventing Extra Excel instances SOLVED

Annoying doesn't even cover it.  However when Access PAGE FAULTS over it,
THAT is annoying!

John W. Colby
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 1:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Preventing Extra Excel instances SOLVED


John it is just as annoying when trying to export data from a legacy DB
application and the only capable export methods are text based. And you just
know that some record is some field in some table will have a 'quote' mark
in it. So queries for all text fields have to be created with the one
purpose finding these elusive bugs... 

It all seems like a long time ago...like last week. :-)
Jim 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 5:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Preventing Extra Excel instances SOLVED

I had one today...

I build a SQL statement as the recordsource for a form.  I am dynamically
building up a where clause where I substitute in the field name and value in
the where clause.  A name ( O'Doule or some such) has an apostrophe in it.
As you know, the ' is the syntax for enclosing text strings in a SQL
statement when doing this.... 

	"Some SELECT HERE" & _
	"WHERE SomeField = '" & strSomeValue & "';"

In many of the computers at the client, when I append the SQL string in the
form's recordsource with an ' in the middle, instead of a run time error,
Access gives a warning and shuts down.  On my machine it correctly gives a
runtime error.

I am SOOOOooooo tired of this buggy program.

John W. Colby
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Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:43 PM
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You need to report this one to Microsoft.

John W. Colby
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:24 PM
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Hi Jim:

Excellent deduction. I have been annoyed by that issue for years. Truly a
piece of brilliance.

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hale, Jim
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:09 AM
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Subject: [AccessD] Preventing Extra Excel instances SOLVED

As I have commented on several  occasions, I've had a pesky problem with
orphan Excel instances that are not destroyed when the program finishes. As
several  of you pointed out all object variables must explicitly be set to
nothing. While this cured some cases I have continued to have Excel
instances that refuse to die. I have finally traced the cause to the
following code fragments:

Public Function UpdateLoan(appXcel As Excel.Application)
Dim rng(1 To 2) As Range
With appXcel
Do While Not IsEmpty(ActiveCell)
.............
 Set rng(1) = .Range(Cells(2, intCopycol), Cells(47, intCopycol))

The following code fragments are the culprit:
isEmpty(ActiveCell) and 
.Range(Cells(2, intCopycol), Cells(47, intCopycol))

The code works fine but leaves the Excel instance in memory. a period (.)
before ActiveCell and Cells solves the problem, ie.:
isEmpty(.ActiveCell)
.Range(.Cells(2, intCopycol), .Cells(47, intCopycol))

Apparently global members of the Excel application object such as ActiveCell
and Cells must be explicitly qualified with the Application object for them
to be properly destroyed when they go out of scope. Even though the program
will run correctly without them being qualified, they are not cleaned up
properly when used this way.  Exactly what is happening internally wiser
heads than I may want to comment.

Jim Hale

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