ActiveX Questions

[marko]

Chris,

I use this 'COM Up!' tool when playing with COM/ActiveX.
Hope it helps you
http://www.bitwheel-technologies.com/products/comup/
http://www.bitwheel-technologies.com/products/comup/comup!_eval.zip



"Chris Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1013487810.369.python-list at python.org>...
> I am developing a headache messing with an OCX I picked up from the
> Internet.  It seems that my forays into ActiveX never pan out; I should
> stick with Linux.
> 
> The control is called "REPORTOCX.ReportOcxCtrl.1" (why does the name
> have to be such a pain to find?)  I can instantiate it:
> 
> >>> o = win32com.client.Dispatch("REPORTOCX.ReportOcxCtrl.1")
> >>>
> 
> (I'm running 2.1.2 btw.)  When I try to use it's methods all I get is:
> 
> >>> o.AboutBox()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>   File "win32com\gen_py\E80AB8D2-EB1E-49EE-8C2A-57BB2E70302Ax0x1x0.py", line
> 29, in AboutBox
>     return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(0xfffffdd8, LCID, 1, (24, 0), (),)
> com_error: (-2147418113, 'Unexpected failure', None, None)
> >>>
> 
> Any method or property, same answer.
> 
> The URL for the control is:
> 
>     http://www.qwerks.com/download/3693/report.zip
> 
> It is supposed to be a general printing control, but nothing works.
> 
> Chris Gonnerman -- chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net
> http://newcenturycomputers.net