AW: Evidence of pythoncom bug?

[Bill Bell]

Stefan, thanks. I'll take a look. - Bill

On 7 Sep 2001, at 16:07, Stefan Schukat wrote:

> > 
> > > ----------
> > > Von: 	Bill Bell[SMTP:BILL-BELL at BILL-BELL.HAMILTON.ON.CA]
> > > Gesendet: 	Freitag, 7. September 2001 14:42:52
> > > An: 	Mark Hammond
> > > Cc: 	python-list at cwi.nl			
> > > Betreff: 	RE: Evidence of pythoncom bug?
> > > Diese Nachricht wurde automatisch von einer Regel weitergeleitet.
> > > 
> > > 
> > On 7 Sep 2001, at 23:34, Mark Hammond wrote:
> > > Yes - pythoncom does not support arbitary vtable based interfaces.
> > > This limitation has existed since day 1, and may soon be able to
> > > be removed. However, it still exists today.  So I am afraid it is
> > > a simple case of it being a known and documented limitation.
> > 
> > Thanks very much!
> > 
> > I don't suppose you could point me toward some kind of 
> > workaround?
> > 
> > Thanks in any case.
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > Bill Bell, Software Developer
> > 
> 
> You could probably make your own pyd which wraps this custom
> interface. Mark provided scripts for that in ..\com\win32com\makegw.
> In makegw.py is a short explanation what to be done. If you don't have
> an IDL file for your interface try to make a new one out of the
> typelib via the OLEVIEW.EXE utility shipped with Visual Studio. With
> this you could generate then the .h anc .c files needed for the makegw
> utility. Any further question I could only answer on Monday.
> 
> Bye
> 
>    Stefan
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Bill Bell, Software Developer