Re: [TRNSYS-users] Error message: A win32 API function failed.

[David Bradley <bradley@tess-inc.com>]

Dear Wimolsiri,
  The easiest way to see the illegal character on the clipboard is
to open a text editor (Notepad or WordPad) and perform a
"paste" (CTRL-V). Usually, you will end up pasting whatever the
illegal character was. The only information that should be transferred
back and forth between EES and TRNSYS are numbers (text characters won't
be interpreted correctly). I am not sure why you are getting the API
function failed error message - I haven't ever run into that one. The one
piece of advice I might give is to make sure that you have all of EES's
error messaging abilities switched off. When EES is performing its
calculations, TRNSYS sits in a waiting loop until EES posts something on
the clipboard and alerts TRNSYS that it has finished. Sometimes, if EES
generates an error in its calculations, TRNSYS doesn't find out about it
and just waits indefinitely. If you can't figure out what is going on,
please forward your TRNSYS input file and EES file to me and I will see
if I can debug it for you.
Kind regards,
 David
   


> I am running
> a model type 66 (Calling external program-EES) under Trnsys16. After the
> program has been run about 2500 hr (smoothly), 2 error messages show
> up:
>
> A Win32 API function failed.
>
> And
>
> An illegal character was encountered in position 1 of
> the string delP while reading CLIPBOARD.
>
> The last message indicates that there is something
> wrong in the data in the clipboard. Firstly, I thought that there should
> be something wrong with the setting of the numerical format, but it is
> right.
>
> Where is the temporary file in the clipboard saved? Is
> there any possibility to check the data in the clipboard? 
>
> What does the first message mean (a win32 API function
> failed)?
>
>  
>
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