AutoIt.Error Source (Happy New Year)

[rassillon]

I am having a problem.

I am writing a COM error handler for a project I am working on and it appears that the Error object is missing the "source" property.

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Global $Global_com_error_object = ObjEvent("AutoIt.Error", "_com_error_handler")

Func _com_error_handler()
Local $_com_error_text
If @Compiled Then
  $_com_error_text = "COMERR : " & _
  "[.number : '" & Hex($Global_com_error_object.number,8) & "']," & _
  "[.windescription : '" & $Global_com_error_object.windescription & "']," & _
  "[.source : '" & $Global_com_error_object.source & "']," & _
  "[.description : '" & $Global_com_error_object.description & "']," & _
  "[.helpfile : '" & $Global_com_error_object.helpfile & "']," & _
  "[.helpcontext : '" & $Global_com_error_object.helpcontext & "']," & _
  "[.lastdllerror : '" & $Global_com_error_object.lastdllerror & "']"
Else
  $_com_error_text = "COMERR : " & _
  "[.number : '" & Hex($Global_com_error_object.number,8) & "']," & _
  "[.windescription : '" & $Global_com_error_object.windescription & "']," & _
  "[.source : '" & $Global_com_error_object.source & "']," & _
  "[.description : '" & $Global_com_error_object.description & "']," & _
  "[.helpfile : '" & $Global_com_error_object.helpfile & "']," & _
  "[.helpcontext : '" & $Global_com_error_object.helpcontext & "']," & _
  "[.lastdllerror : '" & $Global_com_error_object.lastdllerror & "']" & _
  "[.scriptline : '" & $Global_com_error_object.scriptline & "']"
EndIf

Call($Global_com_error_object.source & "_" & Hex($Global_com_error_object.number,8))
If @error = 0xDEAD And @extended = 0xBEEF Then
  ConsoleWrite($_com_error_text & @crlf)
  ConsoleWrite("Custom COM error handler '" & $Global_com_error_object.source & "_" & Hex($Global_com_error_object.number,8) & "' does not exist."  & @crlf)
Else
  ConsoleWrite($_com_error_text & @crlf)
EndIf
    Return
EndFunc   ;==>_com_error_handler
$shell = ObjCreate("wscript.shell")
$shell.run()
ConsoleWrite(ObjName($shell) & @CRLF)

I have included a crude example that shows my issue.

I am attempting to be able to support custom error handling functions depending on what error and what object throws it.

I am open to suggestions if there is a better way to do this if I have missed some function that AutoIt already supports.

Currently my issue is that the "source" property has no value as demonstrated above.

I am still on 3.3.6.1 and am updating to 3.3.8 soon so if that is the issue, cool, if not....HELP...

Happy New Year All!

Thanks in advance!

[PsaltyDS]

Not everything that can generate a COM Error provides the .source property. Your script will have to handle those exceptions. Also, Call() is a bad idea because the number of error .number values is huge, so you can't create a function for each one.

[rassillon]

Not everything that can generate a COM Error provides the .source property. Your script will have to handle those exceptions. Also, Call() is a bad idea because the number of error .number values is huge, so you can't create a function for each one.

Hey PsaltyDS,

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, I know there are a butt-load of error numbers and multiply that by different objects it can become astronomical...

My plan is not to provide special handlers for *all* errors, just a select few that I have special plan B for....

I would just handle it straight in my code but I actually have potential for "plugin" scripts to be calling items in my code so as conditions that come up that I can actually do something about I wanted to be able provide hot patches and then updated versions.

I may have to revert to setting global variables before using an object... or something like that....

Thanks for your help!