Starting Illustrator CS4

[Peter JD Matthews]

I have been running Illustrator CS2 from an Access related VBA program for some years. I loaded Creative suite CS4 some weeks back and uninstalled Illo CS2. The lines that invoked Illo CS2 were -

Dim docRef As Illustrator.Document
Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application.2")

I tried changing the last line to -

Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application.4")

and also tried using

Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")

With each of these "Set" lines I also deleted the Reference under "Tools" to the "Adobe Illustrator CS2 Type Library" and checked the CS4 version - making it the last of the checked libraries just like the CS2 one was. However running either of the "Set" lines imediately throws an error - and Illo does not run. Without the ".4" I get an error number of 0. Don't remember what the Setwith ".4" does. Illo has been activated and runs fine from Windows (XP SP3 BTW).

Any suggestions to resolve this, please?

BTW - with Illo CS2 I got a fairly reasonable scripting manual, but all I got with CS4 was the "Introduction to Scripting" which has very little info in it. Is there a real scripting (VBA) manual I can get from sonmewhere?

Peter

[Muppet_Mark-QAl63s]

I have NO idea about you VB problem but you can find the documentation that you want here…

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/illustrator/scripting/index.html

[Peter JD Matthews]

Thanks Muppet, it's good to have the manual update.

However, the manual did not solve my imediate problem, so this question is still open ........???

Peter

[CarlosCanto]

try from scratch with a different application, use Excel for example, set the Reference to the CS4 library and try some simple code to see if it works.

[Peter JD Matthews]

Carlos,

CreateObject with Excel worked fine - no problem. And this was by inserting the Excel set line just before the line for Illustrator in the real application. Remember I have been running this app for years - and the CS2 -> CS4 change (as defined earlier) is the only change

Peter

PS I also tried with Illo open - same response as with it shut down - and this is with no illo process  running per task manager.

PPS I also checked the associations and rebooted. No improvement.

PPPS Uninstalling and Reinstalling Illo CS4 FIXED the PROBLEM

(How come I am not allowed to idenfy this as a "Correct Answer"!! - Folk should be encouraged to post answers whether they had the original problem or not.)

Message was edited by: Peter JD Matthews