EViews 7.2

[sschaffrath]

I've programmed a routine in VBA (excel) that calls a prg.

I work with EViews 6 running under v4 compatibility and works just fine.

When I run it on my client's computer (EViews 7.2 Enterprise Edition with the latest patch installed today), the routine crashes with an uncontrolled error. Report is attached here. The line that causes the crash should be quite innocuous and similar tables are defined previously, so I don't have any idea of what is going on.

"Table T_S_InvMG_%valor2 = tablaa" (tablaa is another table defined previously)

What is worse, is that I thought maybe the wildcard had something to do with the issue, so I rewrote the line like this "Table T_S_InvMG_{%valor2} = tablaa", but nothing happened, so I tried:

"Table T_S_InvMG_{%valor2}
T_S_InvMG_{%valor2} = tablaa"

AND GUESS WHAT? It worked! BUT, when I tried to run the VBA routine with the shell command, it crashed again AND wouldn't even run from EViews without the shell command.

I'm completely puzzled by this and I need a prompt solution. If this uncontrolled bug needs a patch, I will need a temporary solution at least. I hope you can help me.
Thanks!

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[EViews Gareth]

Can you confirm the build date of your copy of EViews? You can check it under Help->About EViews.

[sschaffrath]

20 Jul 2012 -enterprise edition

[EViews Jason]

We are looking into the issue and will reply to this thread as soon as we have more information

[sschaffrath]

Thanks.

If you need to talk to someone please give us a call ASAP

[EViews Steve]

Ok I tried to do the following to recreate your issue but failed to find a problem:

1. Created a program named test111.prg with the following contents:

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wfload c:\files\blah1.wf1 %valor2 = "v" table t_{%valor2} = t

where blah1.wf just contains a single table object named "T"

I ran the program from within EViews and it worked fine. A new table object by the name "T_V" was created.

2. I also kicked off EViews7.exe with the path to the program file and that worked fine:

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EViews7.exe c:\files\test111.prg

3. Finally, I used COM Automation using VBA from Excel 2007 to launch an instance of EViews and ran the program with the following code:

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Sub test() Dim mgr As New EViews.Manager Dim app As EViews.Application Set app = mgr.GetApplication(NewInstance) app.Show app.Run "run c:\files\test111.prg" End Sub

and that worked fine as well.

Are you doing something different?

Steve

[sschaffrath]

Steve,

As I mentioned in the first post, the strangest thing is that the overflow happens when creating a table, but NOT the first time it is done.

We're running the program from a shell command such as

shell(path/EViews 6/Eviews6.exe path/program.prg), similar to your 2 option. Is it exactly the same?

[EViews Steve]

Send me your EViews program and highlight the line (with a comment) that is causing the error. Send it to steve@eviews.com.