Problems with gencache on Windows NT

[Don Dwiggins]

Thanks to you both -- it works fine.

> From: Geoff Talvola <gtalvola at nameconnector.com>

> At 12:27 AM 5/4/01 +0000, Mark Hammond wrote:
>> It is probably the GUI progress indicator.

>> Try adding "bForDemand=1" to the EnsureModule call.  This should make a
>> much faster generation process, and as a result it makes no attempt to
>> display a GUI dialog.
>> 
>> Mark.

I notice that the generation results are different: instead of a single
file, there's a directory containing what looks like a file for each typelib
entry (I didn't look too closely).

> Lately, I've just been using EnsureDispatch to instantiate my COM objects.
> This seems to work just fine, and eliminates the need for a separate call to
> EnsureModule -- EnsureDispatch will call it if necessary.  It also defaults
> to using bForDemand=1 and therefore doesn't bring up a GUI progress window.

> So far I haven't had any problems, but I haven't seen anyone else
> recommending the use of EnsureDispatch, so I'll ask the question: Is there
> any reason _not_ to just use EnsureDispatch?

Are these things written up somewhere, or are they too new?  (I know, I
know, RTF code... 8^)

Again, thanks much.

-- 
Don Dwiggins                    "Solvitur Ambulando"
Advanced MP Technology
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