Roger Upole wrote: > "Teja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Roger Upole wrote: > > > >> "Teja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >I have an application which uses COM 's Dispatch to create a COM based > >> > object. Now I need to upgrade the application to a threaded one. But > >> > its giving an error that COM and threads wont go together. Specifically > >> > its an attribute error at the point where COM object is invoked. Any > >> > pointers please?????? > >> > > >> > >> An actual traceback would help. > >> At a guess, when using COM in a thread > >> you need to call pythoncom.CoInitialize and > >> CoUninitialize yourself. > >> > >> Roger > > > > Actually Roger, this is the scenario.... > > > > I create a COM object at the beginnning of the main thread. In the sub > > thread, I need to access the same instance of the COM object. If it > > were a normal object ie. not a COM obj, i was able to do it. But if it > > were a COM object, its giving an attribute error? Should I pass a COM > > object to the thread. If so How? Please let me know ASAP... Thnks > > > > To pass COM objects between threads, usually they'll need to be marshaled > using pythoncom.CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream, and unmarshaled > with pythoncom.CoGetInterfaceAndReleaseStream. > > Roger
I really appreciate your quick reply....Can u please let me know how to do marshalling and unmarshalling or any good refrences to do it. Because i tried to do it. I got some errors ans so I left it... Thnks again... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list