comtypes 0.6.2 released

[Thomas Heller]

I'm happy to announce the 0.6.2 comtypes release:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/comtypes/

Here are the release notes:

	comtypes 0.6.2 released.

Summary of important changes:

	- Several bug fixes for COM event handlers implemented in Python.

	- Allow typelib wrappers that (wrongly?) contain
	'SAFEARRAY(VARIANT)*'.

	- DllCanUnloadNow() always returns S_FALSE in comtypes inproc
	COM servers.

	- The COM interfaces IViewObject, IViewObject2, and
	IViewObjectEx in the new module comtypes.viewobject.

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Detailed changelog since version 0.6.0:

2010-01-15  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Bumped version number to 0.6.2.

	* CoUninitialize() returns nothing, not HRESULT.

2009-12-22  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Bug fixes for event handlers implemented in Python.

2009-12-11  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* COM servers implemented in Python can now fire events; it did
	not work in some cases.

	* When an exception occurs in a COM event handler, a traceback is
	printed.

2009-11-26  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Allow typelib wrappers that contain 'SAFEARRAY(VARIANT*)'
	parameter types to be imported.  Calling these methods will fail,
	though.

2009-11-13  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* To avoid a memory leak when PyInitialize()/PyUninitialize() are
	called several times, return S_FALSE from inproc server's
	DllCanUnloadNow().

2009-11-05  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* COMObject subclasses can now implement a _final_release_()
	method to free up resources, for example.  This method is called
	when the COM reference count reaches zero.

	* Implement __hash__ method in dynamic dispatch classes.  This
	fixes a 'python -3' warning.

	* comtypes\safearray.py: When numpy is not installed, creating
	safearrays took a very long time.  This is fixed now.

	* comtypes\test\test_server.py: New way to test COM client and
	server.  Work in progress.

2009-10-22  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Support broken COM objects that provide IProvideClassInfo2, but
	not IProvideClassInfo (although the latter is derived from the
	former).  See
	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2829887&group_id=115265&atid=692942

	* Fixed a regression from the 0.4 version, [out] parameters didn't
	accept pointers or arrays any longer. Thanks again to Michael
	Eddington.

2009-10-19  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Fix a memory leak in Python COM servers.  Thanks to Michael
	Eddington for the patch.

2009-10-02  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* comtypes\test\test_server.py: Start a better approach to test
	both COM object calls and COM object implementations.

2009-09-09  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Fix returning SAFEARRAY of VT_RECORDs.  Based on a patch from
	Eduardo Arias.

	* New module comtypes.viewobject, contains the interfaces
	IViewObject, IViewObject2, IViewObjectEx.  IAdviseSink is faked.

	* Change version number to 0.6.2dev.

2009-09-04  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* CoTaskMemFree does not return a HRESULT.  Patch from James Teh.

2009-08-19  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Bumped version number to 0.6.1.

2009-08-07  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* When an interface was specified in the call to
	IClassObject.CreateInstance, return that instead of calling
	GetBestInterface.  Patch from James Teh.

2009-08-04  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Added comtypes.CoGetClassObject() low-level function,
	comtypes.client.GetClassObject() high-level function, and
	implemented a pythonic interface to IClassFactory's CreateInstance
	method:

	    def CreateInstance(self,
			       punkouter=None,
			       interface=None,
			       dynamic=False)

	* Added the 'dynamic=False' parameter to the
	comtypes.client.CoGetObject and comtypes.client.GetActiveObject
	functions.  Suggested by James Teh.

2009-06-17  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* comtypes.automation: Support VT_I8 and VT_UI8 SAFEARRAYs.

	* comtypes._comobject: Restore compatibility with Python 2.3.

	* Add the comtypes.IServiceProvider interface.  Based on a patch
	from Michael Curran.

2009-04-30  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Change version number in repository to 0.6.0.2dev.

	* Replace the VARIANTEnumerator implementation class in
	comtypes.server.automation with a new one which should actually be
	usable.

	* A completely new way how localserver and inproc server instances
	are managed:

		A comtypes.LocalServer or comtypes.InprocServer instance
		is attached to the comtypes.COMObject class at runtime.

		These changes keep localserver running as long as
		COMObject instances are alive.

2009-04-29  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* comtypes.errorinfo.ReportException now takes an additional
	'stacklevel' named argument.

	* Add E_OUTOFMEMORY hresult code.

	* Register the InprocServer32 only when running as script or
	py2exe dll, not when running as py2exe exe server.
	
2009-04-25  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* SAFEARRAYs can now also be created from multi-dimensional numpy
	arrays.

2009-04-23  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Change version number in repository to 0.6.0.1dev.

	* SAFEARRAYs can now also be created from array.array objects, and
	from (one-dimensional) numpy arrays.  This is a lot faster than
	creating them from Python lists or tuples, at least for large
	arrays.

	* ctypes instances like c_int, c_ubyte, and so on can now be
	assigned to VARIANT().value.  This allows to force creation of
	VARIANTs with the corresponding typecodes V_I4, VT_UI1 and alike.

	* Accept typelibs that contain SAFEARRAY(char).

2009-03-17  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Fixed the return type of ITypeLib::ReleaseTLibAttr, which is
	documented wrongly in MSDN.  The return type is void, not HRESULT.
	Reported to cause crashes on Windows 7.

2009-01-29  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Restore compatibility with Python 2.3.
	
	* comtypes\client\_code_cache.py: Add missing 'import types' in
	comtypes\client\_code_cache.py.



-- 
Thanks,
Thomas

-- 
Thanks,
Thomas