Windows, COM, and SigmaPlot

[tla]

Interesting.  I have no complaint about this behavior for cases where the
functions don't need parameters, but there are 
functions that need parameters that don't let me pass them (because they run
before I can enter them), with the resulting 
errors, etc..


In article <decz6.10767$mA.3712727 at newsrump.sjc.telocity.net>, dsavitsk says...
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>> What's going on is odd: if I watch SigmaPlot as I type this in, as soon as
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>> 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
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>> enter the parameters.  By the way, the analogous problem doesn't occur
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>> 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.
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>doug
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