[python-win32] COM, Acrobat and JavaScript

[Joshua Reynolds]

I've already tried that and it doesn't seem to get me anything.  I run 
makepy and it generates the file, but when I print out the objects I get 
they are still <COMObject AcroExch.App> or <COMObject <unknown>>.

In the Acrobat documentation they say they don't define any interface 
for the JSObject, just use IDispatch.  I don't know if this helps, but 
the only difference I can tell between the JSObject and any of their 
other interfaces etc. is that the JSOBject return type from the 
getJSOBject call is defined as LDispatch* (is this a typo and supposed 
to say LPDispatch*) whereas all of the other com objects are returned as 
types LPDispatch (no *).  I am kind of blissfully ignorant of the magic 
that is going on in the python com mapping.

Oh yeah, I am running Python 2.2 with the build 146.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks a million,

Joshua

Mark Hammond wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Joshua Reynolds | Consultant
>>
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