This is in Softimage 2013 SP1 btw.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Tony Barbieri <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > Sorry for such a newbish question but I'm having a hard time isolating a > problem in some code. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't and I > can't find out how to fix it. Basically I have some code running in a > python module that is outside of a typical Softimage Plugin. I've tried to > getting a handle to the Softimage Application object 2 different ways: > > from win32com.client import Dispatch > Application = Dispatch("XSI.Application").Application > > and > > from win32com.client import dynamic > Application = dynamic.Dispatch("XSI.Application").Application > > The error I am getting the first time I run my code is: > > # metadata_dict[ 'workgroups_loaded' ] = str( "; ".join( > Application.Workgroups ) ) > # File "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013 > SP1\Application\python\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line > 495, in __getattr__ > # raise pythoncom.com_error, details > # 2028 - pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, > None, u'Invalid argument specified.', None, 0, -2147418113), None) > > The second time I run the code that line works fine and I get an error at: > > # custom_params.append( customProp.AddParameter2("metadata", > c.siString, yaml_metadata) ) > # File "<COMObject <unknown>>", line 7, in AddParameter2 > # File "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013 > SP1\Application\python\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line > 258, in _ApplyTypes_ > # result = self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(*(dispid, LCID, wFlags, retType, > argTypes) + args) > # 2028 - pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, > None, u'Invalid argument specified.', None, 0, -2147418113), None) > > It's very odd and seems to be a problem with the way Dispatch is working > but I'm too much of a newb to say for sure...Are these just false trails > and not the actual errors that are occuring? If I run > Application.Workgroups in the script editor before ever running this code > it will error out at the second error I posted above. Am I missing some > sort of initialization procedure that has to happen before I can run code > in an outside python module? > > Any help is much appreciated! > > Best, > > -- > -tony > -- -tony
