> Ok, I downloaded that project, and stripped out the TLB. I then got comtypes
> and was able to use comtypes.client.GetModule to generate the typelib wrapper
> module for it:
>
> >>> GetModule("progdlg.tlb")
> <module 'comtypes.gen.VBProgressDialog' from
> 'C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\comtypes\gen\_2F2719A2_83CC_11D3_A08C_0040F6A4BFEC_0_1_1.pyc'>
> >>> import comtypes.gen.VBProgressDialog
>
> Now I can't seem to figure out what to do. There are three classes generated:
>
> class IOleWindow(comtypes.IUnknown)
> class IProgressDialog(comtypes.IUnknown)
> class ProgressDialog(comtypes.CoClass)
>
> Instantiating IProgressDialog() seems to give me an instance that has the
> methods that I'm looking for (at least they show up in Idle as callable
> methods), but when I try to call one I get the following message:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<pyshell#20>", line 1, in <module>
> b.SetTitle('test')
> TypeError: Expected a COM this pointer as first argument
>
> Sorry to be so dense, I'm still learning the COM stuff.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Larry
>
> Test program:
>
> import comtypes.client.GetModule
> GetModule('progdlg.tlb')
> import comtypes.gen.VBProgressDialog
> ci=comtypes.gen.VBProgressDialog
> a=ci.ProgressDialog()
> a.SetTitle('test')
I will look into that, but not before Monday or Tuesday.
Thanks,
Thomas
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