Can't kill word process

[BeckD]

Hi

I'm trying to write a spellchecker and I'm using the MS Word 9 object library. My problem is that I can't seem to close the word object after I've finished with it. This results in many instances of the word process which evenually eats all of my pc's memory.

Here is an example of my code:

'the variable 'str' is parsed to the function

Dim oWord As New Word.Application
dim bln as boolean

bln = oWord.CheckSpelling(str, , False)
'
'rest of spellcheck stuff
'

oWord.Quit
Set oWord = Nothing

Anyone know what I can do to kill the process? Any ideas appreciated.

Beck

 

[Schweiger]

Add the following statement in front of the CheckSpelling statement:

oWord.Documents.Add

Don't ask me why but it seems to work fine...
Perhaps there are other tricks, I've noticed that making the wordapplication visible before checkspelling works too...
Andreas

 

[BeckD]

Thanks Andreas, it works.

 

[mirirom]

heya,

it has to do with the

ApplicationClass.Quit(ref object, ref object, ref object)

method. i just spent about two weeks trying to find this answer as well and didn't get it until i saw a tiny blurb in a remote code sample on MSDN. though i can't prove it, i believe it has to do with the first parameter in the

Quit()

method. it's asking to save changes or not and w/out an available document (which magically pops up when you make your ApplicationClass object visible) the method unfortunately executes w/out any thrown exceptions. but when a Document is added to the

ApplicationClass.Documents

collection...voila. WINWORD.EXE goes back to bed