Well, I'm still not sure what is causing some people to get the "Run-time error '429'
activeX component can't create object" error when trying to send in orders. However,
I've noticed that all but one of the people reporting this problem have been Mac
users. (The one non-Mac user has a Win95 machine with 32MB of memory.) Unfortunately,
I know NOTHING about Macs, so I can't even begin to diagnose possible causes.
I believe that this problem MAY be due to a lack of system resources, but I really
don't know. What I would like is for Mac users out there to give me a hand
understanding the situation.
1. What is the latest Mac O/S version?
2. What is the latest version of the Mac O/S that you would consider
obsolete, (with regards to Automagic in its current form)?
3. What is the latest Mac processor (and/or speed) that you would
consider obsolete?
4. What is considered minimal & optimal system memory for the Mac
these days?
5. Do Mac and Windows versions of Excel share the same version number?
(ie; Excel 97)
6. If you have had the error 429 problem in the past, were you ever
able to get around it, and if so how?
7. (and lastly...) Does any Mac user out there have any suggestions
or ideas about this problem?
Thanks,
Mike Mulka
http://orions.net/Middle-earth/index.htm
To all,
sorry about a bit too much of technical blabla on this mail but I'm also
posting this to the group in the hope some other mac user out there can add
anything to my ideas.
Mike,
Anwering your questions as best as I can:
1. What is the latest Mac O/S version?
>> That would be Mac OSX 10.1.x ? FreeBSD based system running
Apple's Aqua graphic interface
2. What is the latest version of the Mac O/S that you would consider
obsolete, (with regards to Automagic in its current form)?
>> Steve Jobs has formally announced the death of OS9, but you will still
find a lot of people running OS8.5 ? OS9.2 . The MEPBM software itself was
written to run under MacOS 7.6
3. What is the latest Mac processor (and/or speed) that you would
consider obsolete?
>> Current top of the line is the PowerPC G4 processor running from 500mhz
to 1ghz. Imacs and most apple portables run on G3 processor running from 223
? 600 mhz. You can still find quite a few older PowerPC chipsets running
around in Europe and America, but are definitely obsolete now.
4. What is considered minimal & optimal system memory for the Mac
these days?
>> If you run MacOSX you definitely need 128mb (graphics too heavy).
Otherwise you get around pretty well with 64mb. (I run osx with 1gb ram -
she's my beauty :)))
5. Do Mac and Windows versions of Excel share the same version number?
(ie; Excel 97)
>> They share more or less the same time-frame with a year's delay
approximately. You will find Office 98, 2001 and X running around.
Feature-wise they are pretty much the same ? Except for the activeX support
which cannot be migrated to other platforms. Also Office for Mac uses Mac VB
equivalent RealBasic (they are pretty much compatible.)
6. If you have had the error 429 problem in the past, were you ever
able to get around it, and if so how?
>> As I mentioned on an e-mail about a month ago, in my opinion there is no
chance to get around this error as long as activex components are used.
Activex depends on windows to work and unfortunately I do not know the mac
command that would do something similar. I love macs but working with
windows is what pays my rent 
I'm still getting familiar with OSX and the
UNIX subsystem to be able to propose anything. Anyway, when I first got the
error, I summoned the debugger and the VB gets lost when calling the activex
component, because it just isn't there. I think the path for this solution
lies on AppleScript, which is the MacOS scripting language. I'm no good at
it though. Rounding it up, the status of automagic on macs is: all macros
work fine, there is the path problem and the send mail problem, the last
possibly solvable by calling AppleScript routines from the Excel sheet. As
for the path one.. Paths have always been a very obscure thing in MacOS, now
with the UNIX bit they have become more present, but it goes as Gavin
mentioned, instead of the back-slash it uses colons and instead of a drive
letter it uses the actual drive label (in my case a very creative "Hard
Drive")
7. (and lastly...) Does any Mac user out there have any suggestions
or ideas about this problem?
>> My only idea would be to create another sheet on automagic
allowing for the final formatted orders to be viewed as text, which could
then be cut'n'pasted and manually e-mailed to MEGames. The other option is
finding a good AppleScripter 
That's it.
Giu, from Brazil.
···
On 12.05.2002 15:26, "Urzahil" <Urzahil@orions.net> wrote:
Well, I'm still not sure what is causing some people to get the "Run-time
error '429'
activeX component can't create object" error when trying to send in orders.
However,
I've noticed that all but one of the people reporting this problem have been
Mac
users. (The one non-Mac user has a Win95 machine with 32MB of memory.)
Unfortunately,
I know NOTHING about Macs, so I can't even begin to diagnose possible causes.
I believe that this problem MAY be due to a lack of system resources, but I
really
don't know. What I would like is for Mac users out there to give me a hand
understanding the situation.
1. What is the latest Mac O/S version?
2. What is the latest version of the Mac O/S that you would consider
obsolete, (with regards to Automagic in its current form)?
3. What is the latest Mac processor (and/or speed) that you would
consider obsolete?
4. What is considered minimal & optimal system memory for the Mac
these days?
5. Do Mac and Windows versions of Excel share the same version number?
(ie; Excel 97)
6. If you have had the error 429 problem in the past, were you ever
able to get around it, and if so how?
7. (and lastly...) Does any Mac user out there have any suggestions
or ideas about this problem?
Thanks,
Mike Mulka
http://orions.net/Middle-earth/index.htm
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