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OLE_S_STATIC
Static OLE presentation completed successfully
OLE_S_STATIC is HRESULT 262145 (0x00040001) from winerror.h. AllStat describes this result as “Success, but static.” The high-order severity bit is clear, so this is a success result, but it carries more information than plain S_OK.
The operation succeeded, but the resulting OLE object is static presentation data rather than an active embedded object with a runnable server.
State boundary that must be proved
The central question for it is whether the container can display and persist the presentation format but must not assume verbs, linking, or live editing are available. The HRESULT alone confirms neither unrelated work nor the quality of optional outputs.
A reliable interpretation of this result names the exact method contract, the object generation, and the outputs that remain valid. This prevents a success-with-information result from being promoted to full success or demoted to a generic error.
Where the result is encountered
- This result can appear in creation from clipboard or data-object content; record the producing interface and method rather than inferring behavior from the symbolic name alone.
- It can appear in legacy document conversion; record the producing interface and method rather than inferring behavior from the symbolic name alone.
- It can appear in containers that preserve an image or metafile when the original server is unavailable; record the producing interface and method rather than inferring behavior from the symbolic name alone.
The same numeric success value can be mishandled when a wrapper exposes only a Boolean. Keep the original HRESULT until the code-specific outputs and state transition have been evaluated.
Evidence and telemetry to preserve
- preserve CLSID or static-format marker.
- preserve FORMATETC and storage medium.
- preserve presentation dimensions and aspect.
- preserve whether a server application is registered.
- preserve save/reload results for the static object.
Also record ole_s_static_operation, ole_s_static_object, ole_s_static_state_before, ole_s_static_state_after, UTC time, process and thread identifiers, and a correlation ID. Keep secrets out of logs while retaining GUIDs, CLSIDs, media subtypes, property IDs, row identities, and hashes needed to distinguish objects.
Diagnostic sequence
- capture the raw HRESULT
0x00040001immediately after the returning method and record whether the caller usedSUCCEEDED,FAILED, equality testing, or exception translation. - Identify the exact owner of it: interface, method, object instance, provider or filter version, thread or apartment, and operation phase.
- Validate the decisive contract boundary for it: the container can display and persist the presentation format but must not assume verbs, linking, or live editing are available.
- inspect every output parameter, count, status array, returned interface, or side effect that the method documentation associates with this success-with-information result.
- Compare the observed state before and after it; do not assume that a success severity bit means every optional sub-operation completed.
- reproduce the smallest request with the same object state and then change only the condition identified by the evidence before repeating the operation.
Correct handling, retry, and recovery
Accept the object when a static representation satisfies the user operation. Disable or explain edit verbs that require a live server, and preserve the presentation data during save.
Retry it only when the recorded state can change the documented outcome. Repeating the same call is inappropriate for a stable end marker, cancellation, unsupported format, adjusted property, or partial result whose completed side effects have not been reconciled.
Practical validation scenario
A document pastes a metafile from an old source and receives it. The container renders and saves it, labels it as non-editable, and verifies that reopening the document retains the image.
The negative test should preserve the condition that produces it; the recovery test should alter only that condition and verify the final state as well as the HRESULT.
Difference from nearby HRESULT values
OLE_S_USEREG redirects metadata lookup to registration; it classifies the created object as non-active presentation content.
This distinction determines whether the caller should consume partial outputs, stop iteration, wait, reconfigure, notify the user, or perform no error recovery at all.
Developer and administrator guidance
Tests for it should verify both the encoded condition and the resulting outputs. A test for it that checks only SUCCEEDED cannot detect stale counts, partial streams, adjusted properties, missing callbacks, or other code-specific effects.
A support report for it should include decimal 262145, hexadecimal 0x00040001, the AllStat meaning, the owning API, and the first detailed status or output that explains why the method did not return ordinary S_OK.
References
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