[python-win32] Some problems with instantiating a type library

[Tim Roberts]

pierre wrote:
> Hi, i'm trying to make use of win32 and makepy for automatizing the CAD/CAMsoftware Rhino3D.
>
> I'm beginning with something like this:
>
> import win32com.client
> from RSInterface import RhinoScript #Interface made by makepy from the RhinoScript type library
>
> Rhino = win32com.client.Dispatch('Rhino4.Application')
> Rhino.Visible = True
>     
> #this works and launches rhino but not the following 
>     
> RS = Rhino.GetScriptObject
>   

This is a function, not a property.  Unlike VB, function calls in Python 
must have the parens:
    RS = Rhino.GetScriptObject()

However, their knowledge base mentions that it can take quite a long 
time before it loads the RhinoScript plugin.  They suggest retrying the 
GetScriptObject call in a loop with a delay:
    http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.aspx/McNeel/Rhino4Automation

It shouldn't be hard to convert that to Python.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.