ActiveX Questions

[Chris Gonnerman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl M. Syring" <syring at email.com>


> "Chris Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> schrieb
> >
> > The control is called "REPORTOCX.ReportOcxCtrl.1" (why does the name
> > have to be such a pain to find?)  I can instantiate it:
> >
> > >>> o = win32com.client.Dispatch("REPORTOCX.ReportOcxCtrl.1")
> > >>>
> >
> > (I'm running 2.1.2 btw.)  When I try to use it's methods all I get is:
> >
> > >>> o.AboutBox()
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> >   File "win32com\gen_py\E80AB8D2-EB1E-49EE-8C2A-57BB2E70302Ax0x1x0.py",
> line
> > 29, in AboutBox
> >     return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(0xfffffdd8, LCID, 1, (24, 0), (),)
> > com_error: (-2147418113, 'Unexpected failure', None, None)
> > >>>
>
> Looks like it is missing a DLL, probably one of MFC's (If it is on a bare
> bones Win95, there are more interesting modes of failure). Can't you
> inspect, what your OCX is trying to import?

Ur.  What's the Win32 equivalent of ldd (dumps linked dll's)?  I ran strings
on it and filtered out the .dll files (case-insensitive match) and came up
with this:

MFC42.DLL    <- got that
MSVCRT.dll   <- got that
KERNEL32.dll <- got that (system wouldn't run without it, right?)
USER32.dll   <- ditto
GDI32.dll    <- ditto
OLEAUT32.dll <- got that

What might I be missing?

I tried some other ActiveX controls with reasonable success, but a few
showed
the same error message.