COM Makepy Question

[gregarican]

Gotcha. That makes perfect sense looking at the container references
others made during my Googling adventures. Thanks!

Stefan Schukat wrote:
> It seems that the ocx only works in a GUI environment. Perhaps you could
> try to embed
> the ocx in a pythonwin dialog which you create invisible since the
> dialog is then
> a control container
>
> see "Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\Demos\ocx\ocxtest.py"
>
> 	Stefan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: python-list-bounces+sschukat=dspace.de at python.org
> > [mailto:python-list-bounces+sschukat=dspace.de at python.org] On
> > Behalf Of gregarican
> > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 1:37 PM
> > To: python-list at python.org
> > Subject: COM Makepy Question
> >
> > Using Pythonwin's COM Makepy utility I created a COM wrapper
> > around an OCX file that's used to communicate with a
> > magstripe card reader. The wrapper was created without
> > incident and I can invoke any "get" type of method without a
> > problem. But whenever I attempt to invoke any of the "set"
> > type of methods I receive an error message that states:
> >
> > (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, 'ctlUSBHID', 'Client
> > Site not available', None, 1000398, -2146827890), None)
> >
> > Googling around I see that this error message indicates an
> > ActiveX control that's being referenced without residing
> > within a container.
> > Not sure if this is something that I can fix myself within
> > the Makepy COM wrapper or if I have to rely on the vendor
> > shipping an updated OCX file. I did see a Python discussion
> > thread where someone else ran into a similar problem and had
> > to wait for the vendor to ship a revised OCX file.
> >
> > Dolphin Smalltalk has a similar COM wrapper utility and the
> > same exact error occurs. The OCX file is ideally suited for
> > Visual Basic but I don't have that compilation environment
> > setup on my workstation to try out.
> >
> > Anyone familiar with such matters? I have contacted the
> > vendor to try to initiate things on that end. But if there's
> > something I can do to circumvent that route using Python I'd
> > give it a go.
> > 
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