win32com: makepy causes ie problems.

[Mark Hammond]

David LeBlanc wrote:
> While trying to figure out how to make the recently posted (by Paul Rubin)
> ie navigation example work, I had occasion to run makepy.py on "Microsoft
> Internet Controls". After doing this, the sample would fail on "ie.visible =
> 1". Removing the generated file would return the sample to working order.
> 
> Sample:
> from win32com.client import DispatchEx
> import time
> 
> ie = DispatchEx('internetexplorer.application')
> ie.visible = 1
> ie.navigate('http://www.w3.org')

Was the problem "AttributeError: visible"?  If so, the problem is simply 
that the correct name for the property is "Visible".  makepy is case 
sensitive.

> I'm also interested, as the comment suggests, on how to wait for a browser
> to finish navigating before I query it's state? Come to think of it, is
> there any way to get back an error status like <ahem> "403"? :)

The best way is to hook IE events.  See the docstring for 
DispatchWithEvents, and the examples in the win32com\test directory.

Mark.