win32com.client.dynamic: VARIANT type not supported for SAFEA RRAYS

[Stefan Migowsky]

Hi,

if you have type information (e.g. a .tlb) just generate a wrapper
with makepy and send the line where the CanModify property is defined, i.e.
...
	_prop_map_get_ = {
		...
		"CanModify": (XX, XX, (YY, XX), (), "CanModify", XX),
...
On the YY place is the definition of the type. If there is a 12 which means
VARIANT we are out of luck. 
 
Just for your information here is the list of supported variant 
types for safearrays:
VT_VARIANT
VT_UI1
VT_I2 
VT_I4
VT_R4
VT_R8
VT_BSTR
VT_DISPATCH
VT_UNKNOWN
VT_DATE

  Stefan

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Olaf Trygve Berglihn [mailto:olafb at pvv.org]
>Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 10:43 AM
>To: python-list at python.org
>Subject: Re: win32com.client.dynamic: VARIANT type not supported for
>SAFEARRAYS
>
>
>* "Mark Hammond" <mhammond at skippinet.com.au
>> The Python COM framework doesnt have support for that variant type in
>> safe array :-(  I have no idea what the variant type is, but it must
>> be one of the more obscure ones.  What is the property defined as
>> returning?  Presumably it is an array, but of what?
>> 
>> Mark.
>
>According to the help files for the COM-aware application, the
>datatypes used are:
>
>Visual Basic Type       C++ Type
>--------------------------------
>Variant                 VARIANT
>String                  BSTR
>Boolean                 VARIANT_BOOL
>Long                    long
>Integer                 short
>Double                  double
>Single                  float
>arrays                  SAFEARRAY
>
>Does that answer any questions?
>
>Olaf
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>* Olaf Trygve Berglihn <olafb at pvv.org>
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