One more thought -- I have tried both Early and Late binding COM calls and I get the same error message either way.
>I thought I'd try this again -- still no progress on my debugging. From >using Visual Basic it seems that the interface is expecting an array of >type varint where each element of the array is another array. The inner >arrays are two elements long (an x and y data point) > > I have also tried using the array module but I still get the same > errors -- basically anything that I try in Python results in a error > indicating that only a 1-dimensional arrays are supported -- which seems > weird since the vbasic code is not making a single dimensional array. > > Any thoughts are appreciated > > > >> Help ! >> >> I am writing some COM code in Python to control photoshop. Several >> functions of PS require an "Array" argument. In the examples of >> VBscript >> or javascript the Array type is used. I have tried what would appear to >> be >> the equivalent in Python -- Lists and Tuples -- but to no avail. Anyone >> have >> any insight on what via the COM interface is equivalent to an Array in >> javascript ? >> >> Here is the Javascript example code >> >> ..... >> selRegion = Array(Array(1,1),Array(1,2),Array(2,2),Array(2,1)) >> Doc.Selection.Select(selRegion,1,0,0) >> ..... >> >> Here is my interpretation in Python >> >> ....... >> selregion = [(1,1),(1,2),(2,2),(2,1)] >> print selregion >> doc.Selection.Select(selregion,1,0,0) >> ...... >> >> Here is the error code generated >> >> .......... >> F:\automation>test2.py >> [(1, 1), (1, 2), (2, 2), (2, 1)] >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "F:\automation\test2.py", line 19, in ? >> doc.Selection.Select(selregion,1,0,0) >> File "<COMObject <unknown>>", line 3, in Select >> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, 'Adobe >> Photoshop', 'Illegal argument - argument 1\n- Only arrays >> with dimension 1 >> are supported', None, 0, -2147220262), None) >> >> >> ............ >> >> I have tried many differnet permutations of structure for the selregion >> variable. Any scalar or single dimension array returns an "Illegal >> Argument" response with no further details -- any thing that resembles a >> two >> dimensional array returns the result above. >> >> Any help / thoughts would be appreciated >> >> > _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32