[python-win32] Need help with COM MSN Messenger Interface

[Kevin Patterson]

I think the problem is just the MSN documentation...The pythoncom
stuff is working as expected. To make things a little easier, I
recommend using the MakePy in pythonwin. It will create a .py file
that helps a small amount when trying to figure out what functions and
such you need to call. I renamed the output file to msn.py and ran the
following:

import msn
mapp = msn.Messenger()
person = mapp.GetContact("someoe at emai.com",mapp.MyServiceId)
imsg = b.InstanteMessage(person)

No clue how to send a message from here...I recommend just googling on
these function names and you'll end up seeing some VB code, but the
same function calls usually work pretty similarly in python





On 8/17/06, Indy LIU <indy.liu at thinkingcactus.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for the reply. I think it comes down to my lack of knowledge
> about using COM objects.
>
> C++ is my native programming language and I've done some python. But the
> whole COM thing is totally new to me. Unfortunately, as you probably
> have found out most PythonCom examples are about word, excel or outlook.
> It's really hard to extend those examples to other COM objects when
> there's no clear instruction but 'go to MSDN or use the COM Browser'. To
> make matters worse the MSN API was poorly documented. For example the
> only COM object that visibly starts my MSN Messenger Client is
> 'Messenger.MessengerApp' but on the website it says 'not supported'.
>
> Can you just give me a simple example as to how I can invoke the
> 'IMessenger' Interface and use a method such as 'GetContact'? I'm sure
> it'll benefit the whole pythonwin/MSN community immensely.(After over 4
> hours search I'm 80% sure there's no tutorial about pythoncom and MSN
> messenger. It's clearly a gap.)
>
> Cheers.
>
> Kevin Patterson wrote:
> > Have you tried the MSDN help on this COM Module? Mmmmm...actually
> > after looking through the docs, maybe its not a whole lot of help. I
> > see a lot of "Not Currently Supported" statements. Well, here's the
> > link anyway in case there's something there:
> >
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winmessenger/winmessenger/reference/messengeruasdk/ifaces/imessenger/instantmessage.asp
> > <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winmessenger/winmessenger/reference/messengeruasdk/ifaces/imessenger/instantmessage.asp>
> >
> >
> > On 8/15/06, *Indy Liu* <indy.liu at thinkingcactus.com
> > <mailto:indy.liu at thinkingcactus.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I need to write a plug-in for MSN Messenger in python. All it does is
> >     analyze a new message string and does some string ops on it. Can some
> >     body please give me some tips as to how I achieve this with win32com?
> >
> >     I managed to obtain the messenger API type library as follows, and
> >     just
> >     don't know what to do from here.
> >     "
> >     >>> MSN =
> >     gencache.EnsureModule('{E02AD29E-80F5-46c6-B416-9B3EBDDF057E}', 0,
> >     1, 0)
> >     >>> dir(MSN)
> >     ['CLSID', 'CLSIDToClassMap', 'CLSIDToPackageMap', 'CoClassBaseClass',
> >     'DMessengerEvents', 'Dispatch', 'DispatchBaseClass', 'IID',
> >     'IMessenger', 'IMessenger2', 'IMessenger2_vtables_',
> >     'IMessenger2_vtables_dispatch_', 'IMessenger3',
> >     'IMessenger3_vtables_',
> >     'IMessenger3_vtables_dispatch_', 'IMessengerContact',
> >     'IMessengerContact_vtables_', 'IMessengerContact_vtables_dispatch_',
> >     'IMessengerContacts', 'IMessengerContacts_vtables_',
> >     'IMessengerContacts_vtables_dispatch_', 'IMessengerConversationWnd',
> >     'IMessengerConversationWnd_vtables_',
> >     'IMessengerConversationWnd_vtables_dispatch_', 'IMessengerGroup',
> >     'IMessengerGroup_vtables_', 'IMessengerGroup_vtables_dispatch_',
> >     'IMessengerGroups', 'IMessengerGroups_vtables_',
> >     'IMessengerGroups_vtables_dispatch_', 'IMessengerService',
> >     'IMessengerService_vtables_', 'IMessengerService_vtables_dispatch_',
> >     'IMessengerServices', 'IMessengerServices_vtables_',
> >     'IMessengerServices_vtables_dispatch_', 'IMessengerWindow',
> >     'IMessengerWindow_vtables_', 'IMessengerWindow_vtables_dispatch_',
> >     'IMessenger_vtables_', 'IMessenger_vtables_dispatch_', 'LCID',
> >     'LibraryFlags', 'MajorVersion', 'Messenger', 'MessengerNative',
> >     'MinorVersion', 'NamesToIIDMap', 'RecordMap', 'VTablesToClassMap',
> >     'VTablesToPackageMap', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__',
> >     '__name__', '_in_gencache_', 'constants', 'defaultNamedNotOptArg',
> >     'defaultNamedOptArg', 'defaultUnnamedArg', 'makepy_version',
> >     'python_version', 'pythoncom', 'win32com']
> >     "
> >
> >     I don't want to use msnp.py since it requires the user to log in with
> >     msnp session manually as well as their MSN Messenger. I did hours of
> >     search online and the conclusion is posting & crying for help in this
> >     forum is really my best bet.
> >
> >     Thanks.
> >
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