win32, COM, and Solidworks (again) - Still Trying

[Markus Wankus]

On 09 Aug 2003 15:21:44 +0100, John J. Lee <jjl at pobox.com> wrote:

> Markus Wankus <markus_wankus at hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 23:06:01 +1000 (EST), Andrew MacIntyre
>> <andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au> wrote:
> [...]
>> > If you need to go beyond the IDispatch interface, Thomas Heller's 
>> ctypes
>> > package looks to be your only option, short of creating a full-blown
>> > Pythonwin wrapper (ala Pythonwin's MAPI support) for the SolidWorks 
>> COM
>> > API.
>> >
>>
>> Yes, I was looking into this but was a little mystified at first.  I
>> generated the python wrapper and had a look inside, but was unsure of
>> the extent of the Python code I was going to be required to write, as
>> well as type conversions.
>
> He wasn't talking about the automatically-generated makepy Python
> code, but rather hand-crafted C code wrapper around a particular
> vtable COM interface (though Mark may have some tools to help with the
> process of writing such wrappers, I don't think it's automated).
>
> ctypes is an easy way of doing it than writing a C wrapper.
>

Hmmm.. I guess I am not following.  I'll go back to the ctypes page again 
and give it another go.

Thanks,
-- 
Markus