On 20 Mar, 19:09, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following is the C++ prototype for one of the functions: > short FAR PASCAL VmxOpen(BSTR *Filespec, > LPSHORT lpLocatorSize, > LPSHORT lpOmode, > LPHANDLE lphwmcb, > BSTR *Password);
import ctypes import comtypes LPBSTR = ctypes.POINTER(comtypes.BSTR) HANDLE = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_long)) LPHANDLE = ctypes.POINTER(HANDLE) LPSHORT = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_short) VmxOpen = ctypes.windll.vbis5032.VmxOpen VmxOpen.restype = c_short VmxOpen.argtypes = [LPBSTR, LPSHORT, LPSHORT, LPHANDLE, LPBSTR] Filespec = comtypes.BSTR('blahblahblah') LocatorSize = ctypes.c_short(256) Omode = ctypes.c_short(1) hwmcb = HANDLE() Password = comtypes.BSTR('blahblahblah') res = WmxOpen( byref(Filespec), byref(LocatorSize), byref(Omode), byref(hwmcb), byref(Password) ) or if that fails: pFilespec = ctypes.pointer(Filespec) pLocatorSize = ctypes.pointer(LocatorSize) pOmode = ctypes.pointer(Omode) phwmcb = ctypes.pointer(hwmcb) pPassword = ctypes.pointer(Password) res = WmxOpen( pFilespec, pLocatorSize, pOmode, phwmcb, pPassword ) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list