win32, COM, and Solidworks (again) - Still Trying

Markus Wankus markus_wankus at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 7 10:11:11 EDT 2003


On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 23:06:01 +1000 (EST), Andrew MacIntyre 
<andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Markus Wankus wrote:
>
>> For my objects, dispatch.GetTypeInfo() causes the following exception:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "F:\_DEV\solidworks\swpycom.py", line 12, in ?
>> print sw._oleobj_.GetTypeInfo()
>> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147467263, 'Not implemented', None, None)
>
> If you need to go beyond the IDispatch interface, Thomas Heller's ctypes
> package looks to be your only option, short of creating a full-blown
> Pythonwin wrapper (ala Pythonwin's MAPI support) for the SolidWorks COM
> API.
>

Yes, I was looking into this but was a little mystified at first.  I 
generated the python wrapper and had a look inside, but was unsure of the 
extent of the Python code I was going to be required to write, as well as 
type conversions.

I guess I'll have another look at it.  Thanks for the info.

--
Mark




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