Still problems with DLL

[Roger Irwin]

I am using pythoncom to get access to an Autmoation DLL. I can get the
typelibrary loaded, get a class of the object, get a module which wraps
the class, and a lot of other things.

But I **can't** create any actual instances of the objects contained.

Is there a special procedure for getting an 'instance' of an Active X
object?

 

[Roger Upole]

A lot of ActiveX controls require that they be hosted in full-fledged
container.
See \pythonwin\pywin\demos\ocx for examples using Pythonwin as a host,
or you can also run them in IE and access the object thru the document
object model.

The only error msg I can remember seeing when a container was required was
something like 'Catastrophic failure'.

Roger