Larry Bates schrieb: > Thomas Heller wrote: >> Larry Bates schrieb: >>> I've spent all morning searching and I just can't seem to find the >>> TypeLibrary >>> name for this COM interface.
>> Sometimes someone who wants to use the object from VB writes an idl file >> and compiles a typelib (but you could also try it yourself, maybe). >> With a little googling I found a zip-file containing such a library: >> >> http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/samples/vb6_progdlg.asp > 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: Larry, you do not instantiate the generated classes directly. You must use the comtypes.client.CreateObject function to do that for you, passing the CoClass as parameter. I think that this code should work: import comtypes.gen.VBProgressDialog from comtypes.client import CreateObject dia = CreateObject(comtypes.gen.VBProgressDialog.ProgressDialog) dia.StartProgressDialog(....) Thomas _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
