Statically link DLL to remove need for VC++ installation

2762275 support conversion of arrays of primitives
2171967 throw exception for unexpected data types rather than crash VM

unittest/com/jacob/test/events/ExcelEventTest.java

@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ public class ExcelEventTest extends BaseTestCase {
 		// You can probably also listen Excel.Sheet and Excel.Chart
 		String excelApplicationProgramId = "Excel.Application";
 		String excelSheetProgramId = "Excel.Sheet";
-		String typeLibLocation = "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE11\\EXCEL.EXE";
+		String typeLibLocation;
+		// office 2003
+		typeLibLocation = "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE11\\EXCEL.EXE";
+		// office 2007
+		typeLibLocation = "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE12\\EXCEL.EXE";
 
 		// Grab The Component.
 		ActiveXComponent axc = new ActiveXComponent(excelApplicationProgramId);
@@ -46,7 +50,14 @@ public class ExcelEventTest extends BaseTestCase {
 			Dispatch workbooks = axc.getPropertyAsComponent("Workbooks");
 			Dispatch workbook = Dispatch.get(workbooks, "Add").toDispatch();
 			Dispatch sheet = Dispatch.get(workbook, "ActiveSheet").toDispatch();
-			hookupListener(sheet, excelSheetProgramId, typeLibLocation);
+			System.out.println("Workbook: "+workbook);
+			System.out.println("Sheet: "+sheet);
+			if (typeLibLocation.contains("OFFICE11")){
+				// office 2007 throws crashes the VM
+				System.out.println("Hooking up sheet listener");
+				hookupListener(sheet, excelSheetProgramId, typeLibLocation);
+			}
+			System.out.println("Retrieving cells");
 			Dispatch a1 = Dispatch.invoke(sheet, "Range", Dispatch.Get,
 					new Object[] { "A1" }, new int[1]).toDispatch();
 			Dispatch a2 = Dispatch.invoke(sheet, "Range", Dispatch.Get,
@@ -101,7 +112,7 @@ public class ExcelEventTest extends BaseTestCase {
 					.println("No exception thrown but no dispatch returned for Excel events");
 		} else {
 			// Yea!
-			System.out.println("Successfully attached to " + programId);
+			System.out.println("Successfully attached listener to " + programId);
 
 		}
 	}

unittest/com/jacob/test/powerpoint/PowerpointTest.java

@@ -18,9 +18,12 @@ import com.jacob.test.BaseTestCase;
  * 
  * power point test program posted to sourceforge to demonstrate memory problem.
  * The submitter stated they had the problem on windows 2000 with office 2000 I
- * have been unable to duplicate on windows XP with office 2003. I am comitting
+ * have been unable to duplicate on windows XP with office 2003. I am adding
  * this to the tree just in case we need to come back to it.
  * <P>
+ * This test was modified for office 2007 to synchronize communication with Excel.
+ * Office 2003 didn't require this.
+ * <p>
  * This relies on BaseTestCase to provide the root path to the file under test
  * <p>
  * May need to run with some command line options (including from inside
@@ -117,8 +120,13 @@ public class PowerpointTest extends BaseTestCase {
 								+ ": Iteration " + i);
 						System.out.flush();
 					}
+					// office 2003 seems to have been able to handle more
+					// multi-threaded requests than office 2007
+					// office 2003 could handle 5 threads @ 50 iterations
+					// office 2007 can only handle 1 thread at a time
+					synchronized(comPowerpoint){
 					Dispatch comPresentations = Dispatch.get(comPowerpoint,
-							"Presentations").toDispatch();
+					"Presentations").toDispatch();
 					Dispatch comPresentation = Dispatch.call(
 							comPresentations,
 							"Open",
@@ -127,6 +135,7 @@ public class PowerpointTest extends BaseTestCase {
 							new Integer(0), new Integer(0), new Integer(0))
 							.toDispatch();
 					Dispatch.call(comPresentation, "Close");
+					}
 				}
 			} catch (ComFailException cfe) {
 				threadFailedWithException = cfe;