Help: Capturing COM events

Rush rusha at data-tech.com
Fri Jun 1 12:45:00 EDT 2001


> In essence--
> 
> Create a class that, for every event you're interested in, has a
> method named MyClass.On<eventname>
> 
> Call DispatchWithEvents, passing it the CLSID/ProgId of the COM server you're
> interested in, *and* the event-handling class object.  
> 
> DispatchWithEvents will return an object that (effectively) inherits from both
> the COM server and your event-handling class, and this object's proper
> methods should be called when the COM object fires an event.
> 
> This is a simplification, of course, as the framework scheme that supports 
> this seems to be *very* complex.  Digging through the docstrings and comments
> in win32com.client should help explain more details.  But hopefully this 
> general overview will be helpful.  :)
> 
> Jeff Shannon
> Technician/Programmer
> Credit International

Jeff,
Thanks for your response.  Yours was a most succinct, understandable
reply.  I'll be trying to implement this this afternoon.



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