[python-win32] Trouble Automating Alibre CAD package

[Rodrigo Strauss]

I think trying to create the object using VBScript is a good idea.
This way you will know who to blame (pywin or the component).

===ThisIsJustATestIWouldLikeToDoItInPython.vbs ===
Dim x
Set x = CreateObject ("AlibreX.AutomationHook")
===EOF==

Does it work?

I'm not 100% sure, but AFAIK VB doesn't need the IDispatch, as far as
the component provide a type library and oleautomation types.

Mark: can dispatch-less objects be used from win32com?

Rodrigo Strauss

On 7/6/06, duanek at chorus.net <duanek at chorus.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use pywin32 to automate a CAD package from Alibre (www.alibre.com) called Design Express.
>
> The documentation I can get is written for Visual Basic (and not all that well at that), and I get the following error from the following lines:
>
> [Python Code]
>         import win32com.client
>                         AlibreObject=win32com.client.Dispatch(r"AlibreX.AutomationHook")
> [End Python code]
>
> Error traceback:
>     AlibreObject = win32com.client.Dispatch(r"AlibreX.AutomationHook")
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 95, in Dispatch
>     dispatch, userName = dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 98, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
>     return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 78, in _GetGoodDispatch
>     IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx, pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147467262, 'No such interface supported', None, None)
>
>
> Any ideas what to try next?
>
> Thanks,
> Duane
>
>
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