What roundabouts would you recommend to make FireEvent work with pywin32 module? My clients are mostly installed with pywin32, and switching to comtypes is a risk now.
2008/6/26, Mark Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I do not know where you see the VT_VARIANT. > > > > Here is the IDL defn: > > > > [id(0x80010452)] > > VARIANT_BOOL FireEvent( > > [in] BSTR bstrEventName, > > [in, optional] VARIANT* pvarEventObject); > > > > and the comtypes wrapper snippet: > > DISPMETHOD([dispid(-2147417006)], VARIANT_BOOL, 'FireEvent', > > ( ['in'], BSTR, 'bstrEventName' ), > > ( ['in', 'optional'], POINTER(VARIANT), > > 'pvarEventObject' )), > > Yeah - when win32com gets the type info, it is told the variable is a > "VT_BYREF|VT_VARIANT - eg: > > def FireEvent(self, bstrEventName=defaultNamedNotOptArg, > pvarEventObject=defaultNamedOptArg): > return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(-2147417006, LCID, 1, (11, > 0), ((8, 1), (16396, 17)),bstrEventName > , pvarEventObject) > > 16396, 17 == (VT_BYREF|VT_VARIANT, PARAMFLAG_FOPT|PARAMFLAG_FIN) > > so pythoncom's type converter sees this type tuple, and tries to create a > variant with the exact type specified. It would seem I must treat > VT_VARIANT as a special case (the returned vartype in that case can be > anything and is driven by the type of the param) > > > > Is that correct? If so, I guess I should give that a whirl and > > > hope nothing else in the test suite breaks ;) > > > > Thats what test suites are for... > > I'm more worried that the change will break something that some obscure > program relies on (ie, I hope the test suite shows the change is backwards > compatible) > > > PS: Do you know the answer to the question that I posted in the other > > reply to this > > thread (short version: does pywin32 use IDispatchEx)? > > It doesn't in win32com.client (ie, not when calling objects, as in this > example). win32com.server does IDispatchEx though (mainly as IE itself is > one of the only IDispatchEx users around. IDispatchEx was desgined for > ActiveScripting to offer javascript style semantics to an IDispatch-ish > interface. > > Cheers, > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
