COM "The requested action with this object has failed."

[JonF]

This is driving me crazy. This worked flawlessly for months. Two days ago it stopped working with an "The requested action with this object has failed." error.

I ran SFC. I restored the entire C drive to the day before from a Macrium Reflect image. I rewrote it to use the WinHttp.au3 UDF. I uninstalled and reinstalled AutoIT. I ran it in Steve Towner's GUI debugger (https://web.archive.org/web/20220401023656/https://www.thefoolonthehill.net/drupal/AutoIt Debugger) and  verified the objects were objects. I've Googled the error and gotten many hits, none of which explain WTF should be done. If I un-comment the "$objErr =..." line the error message is "Access is denied". Help??

Func _GoogleAPITranslate($sMytext, $sFrom, $sTo)
  Global $objErr
  Local $sUrl,$sResponse, $JSONData, $sOutput = "", $aData
;   $objErr = ObjEvent("AutoIt.Error","MyErrFunc")
  $oSC = ObjCreate("ScriptControl")
  $oSC.language = "Javascript"
  $g_sMytext = $oSC.eval("encodeURI('" & $sMytext & "');")
  $sUrl = "https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl=" & $sFrom & "&tl=" & $sTo & "&dt=t&q=" & $g_sMytext
  $oHTTP = ObjCreate("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
  $oHTTP = ObjCreate("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0")
  $oHTTP.Open("POST", $sUrl, False)
  $oHTTP.setRequestHeader('Content-Type','application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
  $oHTTP.Send()
  $sResponse = $oHTTP.ResponseText
EndFunc   ;==>_GoogleAPITranslate

Func MyErrFunc()
    MsgBox(48, 'COM Error', $objErr.description)
    SetError(1)
EndFunc

; https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/202204-simple-google-translate/?do=findComment&comment=1505984

Func TestTranslate()
  MsgBox(0,'Output',_GoogleAPITranslate('Hello world','en','uk'))
EndFunc

TestTranslate()

[Nine]

Works for me flawlessly.  Maybe denial is coming from Google ?  Like too many posts ?

[argumentum]

1 hour ago, JonF said:

Help??

See if this version ( https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/211932-google-translation-with-gui/ ) works.
If it does, use it as the base for yours. If it does not then try another PC ?,  $objErr in my PC don't throw errors.

 

[JonF]

On 3/29/2025 at 9:32 AM, Nine said:

Works for me flawlessly.  Maybe denial is coming from Google ?  Like too many posts ?

Ah, that's it. If I use a VPN it works.

[JonF]

On 3/29/2025 at 10:49 AM, argumentum said:

See if this version ( https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/211932-google-translation-with-gui/ ) works.
If it does, use it as the base for yours. If it does not then try another PC ?,  $objErr in my PC don't throw errors.

 

I have that. It doesn't work. The denial seems to be based on too many requests from my IP.