>>>Has anyone figured out how to close the WINWORD.EXE process that an oldboundcontrol object starts when it is assigned a control source?
>>>
>>>Here is the code I'm using:
>>>
>>> oform = CREATEOBJECT('form')
>>> oform.ADDOBJECT('owordobject','oleboundcontrol')
>>> oform.owordobject.CONTROLSOURCE = 'c_parent.contract'
>>> oform.owordobject.SAVEAS(lcdir+lcfilename)
>>> oform.owordobject.CONTROLSOURCE = ''
>>> oform.REMOVEOBJECT('owordobject')
>>> oform = ''
>>> RELEASE oform
>>>
>>>REMOVOBJECT() and RELEASE oform do not remove the WINWORD.EXE process from the task manager. I thought maybe setting the CONTROLSOURCE to blank would do it but that didn't work either.
>>>
>>>HELP!!!!
>>>
>>>Trish
>>
>>Trish,
>>
>>
>>WITH oForm.oWordObject
>>.ActiveDocument.Close(0)
>>.oWordObject.Quit()
>>.oWordObject = .NULL.
>>ENDWITH
>>
>>José
>
>
>Every line produced an error.
>
>This is how I finally got it to work.
>
> oform = CREATEOBJECT('form')
> oform.ADDOBJECT('owordobject','oleboundcontrol')
> oform.owordobject.CONTROLSOURCE = 'c_parent.contract'
> oform.owordobject.doverb(0)
> oform.owordobject.SAVEAS(lcdir+lcfilename)
> oform.REMOVEOBJECT('owordobject')
> oform.destroy && not necessary
> oform.release && not necessary
> oform = ''
> RELEASE oform
>
>You MUST have the DOVERB(0) AFTER assigning the CONTROLSOURCE. If you don't, it won't release WINDWORD.EXE.
>
>THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM UNDER Windows XP. My original source worked fine on XP. It seems to be a WINDOWS 2000 issue. It was happening on SP2 and SP3.
>
>Thanks.
>Trish

Okay...it worked under the debugger but not outside of it. The SAVEAS returns an error stating that another application is editing the document.

Help!