On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Mark Trostler wrote: > Try as I might I cannot get GetActiveObject to ever return anything > other than undef when using 'InternetExplorer.Application'. I can > create new instances of IE no problem but can NEVER get a currently > running one... It is the foremost window with focus when the code runs > yet GetActiveObject ALWAYS returns undef. How can I get that to work?? > I have Windows XP Service Pack 3 - ActiveState perl 5.10 - Win32::OLE > version 0.1709 thanks!! Mark
There is no way to get this working AFAIK. GetActiveObject() requires that the application registers itself with the COM "Running Objects Table" (aka ROT). IE doesn't do that, so there is no way to obtain a handle to an already running instance. Cheers, -Jan
