Windows, COM, and SigmaPlot

[dsavitsk]

"tla" <tla_member at newsranger.com> wrote in message
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> What's going on is odd: if I watch SigmaPlot as I type this in, as soon as
I
> type the "(" a Notebook appears.  Then when I type ")" and a <cr>, another
> notebook appears and I get the error message.  So if I just enter the line
> >>> sp.Notebooks.Add
> I get a notebook with no error message.
> This would be fine except when a function needs parameters I am not able
to
> enter the parameters.  By the way, the analogous problem doesn't occur
with
> Excel.  For Excel, I can enter the examples and everything works fine.

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This isn't much of an answer, but ...
I have found that when I use VB to make ActiveX servers that I control w/
python, if the methods don't take any parameters, then there are no
parenthesis (including them generates an error), but if there are parameters
then I can use the parenthesis and everything works fine.
I can't explain it, but it seems to work.
?
doug