[python-win32] Python COM and Photoshop

[Sam The Cat]

Jim,
    Yes -- Each permutation has the same issue -- If I try anything that 
looks two dimensional I get the error below, if I try a scalar or single 
dimension array I get an "illegal" argument error


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Vickroy" <Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov>
To: "Sam The Cat" <sam_spam_cat at verizon.net>
Cc: <Python-win32 at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Python COM and Photoshop


> Sam The Cat wrote:
>> Help !
>>
>> I am writing some COM code in Python to control photoshop.  Several
>> functions of PS require an "Array" argument.  In the  examples of 
>> VBscript
>> or javascript the Array type is used.  I have tried what would appear to 
>> be
>> the equivalent in Python -- Lists and Tuples -- but to no avail. Anyone 
>> have
>> any insight  on what via the COM interface is equivalent to an Array in
>> javascript ?
>>
>>  Here is the Javascript example code
>>
>>  .....
>>  selRegion  = Array(Array(1,1),Array(1,2),Array(2,2),Array(2,1))
>>  Doc.Selection.Select(selRegion,1,0,0)
>>  .....
>>
>>  Here is my interpretation in Python
>>
>>  .......
>>  selregion = [(1,1),(1,2),(2,2),(2,1)]
>>  print selregion
>>  doc.Selection.Select(selregion,1,0,0)
>>  ......
>>
>>  Here is the error code generated
>>
>>  ..........
>>  F:\automation>test2.py
>>  [(1, 1), (1, 2), (2, 2), (2, 1)]
>>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "F:\automation\test2.py", line 19, in ?
>>      doc.Selection.Select(selregion,1,0,0)
>>    File "<COMObject <unknown>>", line 3, in Select
>>  pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, 'Adobe
>>  Photoshop', 'Illegal argument - argument 1\n- Only arrays
>>  with dimension 1
>>  are supported', None, 0, -2147220262), None)
>>
>>
>>  ............
>>
>> I have tried many differnet permutations of structure for the selregion
>> variable.  Any scalar or single dimension array returns an "Illegal
>> Argument" response with no further details -- any thing that resembles a 
>> two
>> dimensional array returns the result above.
>>
>
> I assume this means you have tried a list of lists as follows:
>
> selregion = [[1,1],[1,2],[2,2],[2,1]]
>
>
>> Any help / thoughts would be appreciated
>>
>>
>>
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