[python-win32] Please help, run into a COM object issue using the windows media SDK, thanks!

[jjpet]

Thanks Mark!

Does PythonWin (or wxPython) provide any way to drive a script as if running it in the PythonWin GUI?

--- On Thu, 10/9/08, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:

> From: Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>
> Subject: RE: [python-win32] Please help, run into a COM object issue using the windows media SDK, thanks!
> To: jjpet1 at yahoo.com, python-win32 at python.org
> Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 8:37 PM
> > Has anybody run into similiar problems before? Working
> with a COM
> > object that only works properly within PythonWin? Any
> way to run the
> > script from the command line or any other method
> without relying on the
> > PythonWin GUI while having the same effect as running
> it within
> > PythonWin?
> 
> This will happen for true "ActiveX Controls",
> which is what you are using.
> wxPython can also host these objects, but a command-line
> Python can't
> without lots of plumbing to implement all the interfaces
> such a control
> needs...  For more examples, see the Pythonwin
> pywin\Demos\ocx directory.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark