[python-win32] OE/WAB help with VB ...

[Clinton Lee Taylor]

Greetings ...

>  > I have found a nice little LGPL library that I hope will make my life
>  > and many others easier ... http://www.nektra.com/products/wab/
>  >
>  > If I understand the docs, it's an activeX component, with a nice
>  > little VB app, but I'm a total noob at both languages and total lost
>  > in all com stuff and dll this and some other stuff ...
>  >
>  > If anybody could look at the VB app and give me a hand at starting a
>  > basic python script that just can dump the names from the WAB, it
>  > would rally help to have a working example to work from ...

Thanks Roger for your quick response ... I hope that I might get a
little further help ...

A quick cut and paste and run to see if this works ...

>  import win32com.client
>  n=win32com.client.Dispatch('NKTWABLib.NKTWAB')
>  r=n.RootFolder
>  print r.Name
>  print r.Folders.Count
>  for folder_num in range(1, r.Folders.Count+1):
>     f=r.Folders[folder_num]
>     print f.Name, 'Groups:', f.Groups.Count, 'Contacts:', f.Contacts.Count
>     for contact_num in range(1, f.Contacts.Count+1):
>         c=f.Contacts[contact_num]
>         print '\t',c.Email1Address

I get ...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Hyplex\outlook\Hylapex\WAB-Contacts-02.py", line 5, in -toplevel-
    r=n.RootFolder
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 455, in __getattr__
    return self._ApplyTypes_(*args)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 446, in _ApplyTypes_
    return self._get_good_object_(
com_error: (-2147352559, 'Does not support a collection.', None, None)

 I think I get this because com objects have to be "imported" ... But
this ActiveX object does not seem to have a "type lib"? ...

 So I tried the following ...

import win32com.client
n=win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("NKTWABLib.NKTWAB")
print n

and I get ...
>>>
<win32com.gen_py.Nektra NKTWAB library.INKTWAB instance at 0x20367160>
>>>


 Again, I tried ...
import win32com.client

n=win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("NKTWABLib.NKTWAB")
print n

r=n.RootFolder
print r.Folders.Count

and I get ...

>>> ================================ RESTART ================================
>>>
<win32com.gen_py.Nektra NKTWAB library.INKTWAB instance at 0x20367160>

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:/Hyplex/outlook/Hylapex/WAB-Contacts-03.py", line 6, in -toplevel-
    r=n.RootFolder
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 455, in __getattr__
    return self._ApplyTypes_(*args)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 446, in _ApplyTypes_
    return self._get_good_object_(
com_error: (-2147352559, 'Does not support a collection.', None, None)
>>>

 ... So, how lost am I?

Thanks for all the help.
Mailed
LeeT