Question

Word VBA Script crashes on start

Asked by: OmegaJunior

Greetings,

We created a word template with vba code. Its purpose is to install new components (other word templates) and change the default workgroup folder in the word application settings.

We tried this at the office, and it appeared to work. When executing at the client's, Word crashed on opening the template. We got this error message:

Winword.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x6503d163" referenced memory at "0x000000e0". The memory could not be "read".

The dialog offered two actions: to terminate the program (which worked) and to debug the program (which failed).

We tried the usual stuff, checking for component references and version of word and such, to no avail.


Using Word 2000, on Win NT (worked), on Win 2000 (both worked and failed) and Win XP (failed). Referencing the MS Scripting Runtime component (apart from the usual).

Any ideas?

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2003-06-04 at 08:47:18ID20636770
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Answers

 

by: bruintjePosted on 2003-06-04 at 10:57:58ID: 8650800

Hello OmegaJumior,

no idea

but hwat you can try is to remove any early binding stuff from your app and do it all late binding then you remove any dependence on specific path's and references and use the registered paths on the pc

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/office97/html/SF7A4.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/modcore/html/deconDeclaringObjectVariables.asp

just an idea

HAGD:O)Bruintje

 

by: DelTremePosted on 2003-06-04 at 12:10:49ID: 8651391

The error you got (instruction at 0x... referenced memory at 0x...) is a common one, but it's the most difficoult one to debug.

The debug option shows you the machine code and assembly language, quite useless information because it will never show YOUR code but the Word.exe code :(

If there's still an error after you tried bruintje's (de beer?) solution, you could also try to put msgbox'es between every 5 lines or so, to find out where the problem occurs.
No solution, but you might find the line of code that's bugging you.

 

by: OmegaJuniorPosted on 2003-06-04 at 13:54:57ID: 8652193

Hello,

Nederlanders aan het werk, zo te zien. (Working with a couple of Dutch people, I see.)

Bruintje, your idea is certainly worth a try. It makes sense.

DelTreme, it's nice to read someone thinks this is a common problem. We couldn't find this in the MSDN.

There's some pretty weird stuff going on. If we step through the code, it works perfectly. Executing it will then work. But then we test it again, we remove all components except for the working installation script, restart the machine, and run the script, and lo and behold, the error reappears.

Also, if we install the script, it weighs 36K. But after stepping through it in debug-mode, and saving it, it weighs 41K. So somehow the recompilation adds a couple of bytes. If that would make it work, we can live with it. Too bad.

Imagine!

 

by: OmegaJuniorPosted on 2003-06-16 at 08:18:56ID: 8732520

Bruintje,

We did convert the filesystemobject reference from early-bound to late-bound. First tests show this works at our office. Thank you for this suggestion.

We're not going to test it at our client's yet, but we'll keep you informed.

Imagine!

 

by: OmegaJuniorPosted on 2003-07-27 at 11:19:57ID: 9015264

Okay,

It seems I'm abandoning my own questions. Bad behaviour.

Update: we haven't tested the change. My colleague did something else and that got accepted by our client. Anyway, I think Bruintje's answer is correct.

Thus, Bruintje, your comment is accepted as an answer as of now.

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