Problem Embedding PythonWin in VC++ 6

[Miles Rizzo]

Oh, yeah- when I try this in a console app I get the message "Can not setup
interpreter state, as current state is invalid".

"Miles Rizzo" <milesrizzo at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:...
> Ok, I'm really new to Python (thought it was just a big snake until this
> week). I've gone throught the tuturial and now I'm trying to embed a
Python
> script in an MFC app using VC 6.0. I followed
> the instructions in "Using Pythonwin in an external project"
> (http://www.python.org/windows/pythonwin/EmbeddingWin32ui.html) but my
> application crashes. The DLL loads and the address of the function is
found
> but calling the Win32uiApplicationInit function causes a crash.
>
> I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
>
> milesrizzo at hotmail.com
> --------------------------------------------------
> CTESTApp theApp;
>
> class MyGlueClass : public Win32uiHostGlue
>
> // I don't have any methods yet.
> };
>
> MyGlueClass glue;
>
> BOOL CTESTApp::InitInstance() {
>    Win32uiHostGlue glue;
>    .
>    glue.DynamicApplicationInit("import pytest",
> "c:\\winnt\\profiles\\mgr\\desktop");
>    .
> }
>
> inline BOOL Win32uiHostGlue::RegisterModule(const char *fname, const char
> *moduleName) {
>    .
>    BOOL (__cdecl *pfnInit)(Win32uiHostGlue *, char *, const char *)=NULL;
>    pfnInit = (BOOL (__cdecl *)(Win32uiHostGlue *, char *, const char
> *))GetProcAddress(hMod, "Win32uiApplicationInit");
>    BOOL rc;
>    if (pfnInit)
>       rc = (*pfnInit)(this, (char *)cmd, additionalPaths); // <<<----- The
> app crashes on this call
>    .
> }
>
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