'Catastrophic failure's trying to use OCX

[Gary Stephenson]

I am trying to interface to an .OCX file.  After successfully running makepy
over it, this is what happens:

ActivePython 2.2.2 Build 224 (ActiveState Corp.) based on
Python 2.2.2 (#37, Nov 26 2002, 10:24:37) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import win32com.client
>>> x1 = win32com.client.Dispatch('PosEft.PosEftCtrl.1')
>>> `x1`
'<win32com.gen_py.PosEft ActiveX Control module._DPosEftMethods>'
>>> x1.ApiVersion
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\activePython22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 3
47, in __getattr__
  File "C:\activePython22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 3
41, in _ApplyTypes_
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147418113, 'Catastrophic failure', None, None)
>>>

Exactly the same thing occurs if I use late-binding instead (via
win32.com.client.Dispatch.dynamic('....').

What am I doing wrong?

many tias,

gary