Launching multiple instances of a program with win32com.client.Dispatch?

[tyler.schlosser at gmail.com]

Bump...not sure if it's bad etiquette here, I apologize if it is.


tyler.schlosser at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> Thanks for the response, but DispatchEx seems to do the exact same
> thing as Dispatch in my case; there is still only one processID and one
> instance of my program (I forgot to mention that I also need two unique
> processID's to keep track of them).
>
> I have also tried:
>
> ###
>
> AB1 =
> pythoncom.CoCreateInstance("Broker.Application",None,pythoncom.CLSCTX_SERVER,pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
>
> AB2 =
> pythoncom.CoCreateInstance("Broker.Application",None,pythoncom.CLSCTX_SERVER,pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
>
> win32com.client.Dispatch(AB1)
> win32com.client.Dispatch(AB2)
>
> ###
>
> That also seems to do the exact same thing.
>
> Any other ideas of things I might try?
>
> Roger Upole wrote:
> > win32com.client.DispatchEx should create a new instance.
> >
> >        Roger
> >
> > <tyler.schlosser at gmail.com> wrote in message news:1152238469.455365.239520 at s26g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > > Hi there, I am trying to launch a program called AmiBroker using the
> > > command:
> > >
> > > AB = win32com.client.Dispatch("Broker.Application")
> > >
> > > However, I have a dual-core CPU and would like to launch two instances
> > > of AmiBroker. I know it is possible to run two instances simultaneously
> > > since it is easy to do manually by double-clicking the AmiBroker.exe
> > > file twice. However, when I write two lines of code like this:
> > >
> > > AB = win32com.client.Dispatch("Broker.Application")
> > > AB2 = win32com.client.Dispatch("Broker.Application")
> > >
> > > and proceed to address these objects, they interfere with each other
> > > since both AB and AB2 are "grabbing" the same instance of AmiBroker. If
> > > I try to run two separate Python scripts, each one containing a
> > > "win32com.client.Dispatch("Broker.Application")" comand, the same
> > > problem happens (where even though the objects are named differently,
> > > they do not each launch an instance of the program; the first one
> > > launches it and the second one just "grabs" it).
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to force two separate program launches rather than
> > > having both Dispatch commands access the same object? I would be
> > > incredibly thankful to anyone who could offer some help with this.
> > >
> > > Thank you very much,
> > >
> > > Tyler
> > >