[python-win32] Python COM and Photoshop

[Jim Vickroy]

Sam The Cat wrote:
> Help !
>
> I am writing some COM code in Python to control photoshop.  Several
> functions of PS require an "Array" argument.  In the  examples of VBscript
> or javascript the Array type is used.  I have tried what would appear to  be
> the equivalent in Python -- Lists and Tuples -- but to no avail. Anyone have
> any insight  on what via the COM interface is equivalent to an Array in
> javascript ?
>
>  Here is the Javascript example code
>
>  .....
>  selRegion  = Array(Array(1,1),Array(1,2),Array(2,2),Array(2,1))
>  Doc.Selection.Select(selRegion,1,0,0)
>  .....
>
>  Here is my interpretation in Python
>
>  .......
>  selregion = [(1,1),(1,2),(2,2),(2,1)]
>  print selregion
>  doc.Selection.Select(selregion,1,0,0)
>  ......
>
>  Here is the error code generated
>
>  ..........
>  F:\automation>test2.py
>  [(1, 1), (1, 2), (2, 2), (2, 1)]
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "F:\automation\test2.py", line 19, in ?
>      doc.Selection.Select(selregion,1,0,0)
>    File "<COMObject <unknown>>", line 3, in Select
>  pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, 'Adobe
>  Photoshop', 'Illegal argument - argument 1\n- Only arrays
>  with dimension 1
>  are supported', None, 0, -2147220262), None)
>
>
>  ............
>
> I have tried many differnet permutations of structure for the selregion
> variable.  Any scalar or single dimension array returns an "Illegal
> Argument" response with no further details -- any thing that resembles a two
> dimensional array returns the result above.
>   

I assume this means you have tried a list of lists as follows:

 selregion = [[1,1],[1,2],[2,2],[2,1]]


> Any help / thoughts would be appreciated
>
>
>
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