[python-win32] COM, Acrobat and JavaScript

[Mark Hammond]

Try running makepy over the Acrobat type library.  Look for documentation on
makepy in the COM readme.

Mark,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-admin@python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of Joshua Reynolds
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 March 2002 8:01 AM
> To: python-win32
> Subject: [python-win32] COM, Acrobat and JavaScript
>
>
>
>
> Problem:
>
> The functionality that I need to use from Acrobat is on a javascript
> object (returned type defined in the Automation interface as an
> LDispatch*).  I haven't had any problems using any of their other OLE
> components through python, but when I try to use the root javascript
> object -- or any other javascript objects accessed through it.
>
> I can get at all of the attributes on the javascript objects, but if I
> try to call a method on it, it fails.
>
> Here is the full calling sequence that brings me to failure
>
>  >>> from win32com.client import Dispatch
>  >>> app = Dispatch("AcroExch.App")
>  >>> app
> <COMObject AcroExch.App>
>  >>> pddoc = Dispatch("AcroExch.PDdoc")
>  >>> pddoc.Open("d:\\tmp\\cn_final.pdf")
> 1
>  >>> jso = pddoc.getJsobject
>  >>> jso
> <COMObject <unknown>>
>  >>> jso.app.formsVersion
> 5.0
>  >>> jso.console.Show
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>    File
> "D:\programs\Python2.2\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py",
> line 432, in __getattr__
>      raise pythoncom.com_error, details
> com_error: (-2147467263, 'Not implemented', None, None)
>
> in the above, app.formsVersion is an attribute, and console.Show  is a
> parameterless method.
>
> Here are some potentially useful snippets from the Acrobat docs on using
> the JSObject in Visual Basic.
>
>
>
> 6. JSObject always returns values as Variants. This includes property
> gets as well as
> return values from method calls. An empty Variant is used when a null
> return value
> is expected. When JSObject returns an array, each element in the array
> is a
> Variant. To determine the actual data type of a Variant, use the utility
> functions
> IsArray, IsNumeric, IsEmpty, IsObject, and VarType from the Information
> module of the VBA library.
> 7. JSObject can process most elemental Visual Basic types for property
> puts and
> input parameters to method calls, including Variant, Array, Boolean,
> String, Date,
> Double, Long, Integer, and Byte. JSObject can accept Object parameters,
> but only
> when the Object was the result of a property get or method call to a
> JSObject.
> JSObject fails to accept values of type Error and Currency.
>
> I have verified that I can access the methods on JSObject as well as
> subObjects, but I would really really like to be able to use this stuff
> through python.
>
> Any ideas on how i can get access to any of those methods?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Joshua
>
>
>
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