win32 COM and data types / direction

[Alexander Eisenhuth]

Hello everybody,

i wonder how the win32 COM extension handles different C-int types
(short, int, long). Another question for me is weather the
"out-direction" of parameter is supported "out of the box" ?

To clarify look at the methode "FunWithTwoInts"
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#SimpleCOMServer.py - A sample COM server - almost as small as they come!
#
# We expose a single method in a Python COM object
class PythonUtilities:
_public_methods_ = [ 'FunWithTwoInts' ]
_reg_progid_ = "PythonDemo.Utilities"

# NEVER copy the following ID!
# Use "print pythoncom.CreateGuid( )" to make a new one
_reg_clsid_ = "{40CEA5F8-4D4C-4655-BD8B-0E7B6A26B556}"

def FunWithTwoInts(self, inShort, inInt, outSum):
print "got as short:%d as int:%d sum:%d" % (inShort, inInt, outSum)
outSum = inShort + inInt

# Add code so that when this script is run by
# Python.exe, it self-registers
if __name__=='__main_ _':
print "Registering COM server..."
import win32com.server.register
win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(PythonUtil ities)
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Does anybody have experiences in this ?

Any help/hints are very welcome.

Alexander

[Thomas Heller]

Alexander Eisenhuth <ne******@stacom-software.de> writes:

Hello everybody,

i wonder how the win32 COM extension handles different C-int types
(short, int, long). Another question for me is weather the
"out-direction" of parameter is supported "out of the box" ?

To clarify look at the methode "FunWithTwoInts"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
#SimpleCOMServer.py - A sample COM server - almost as small as they come!
#
# We expose a single method in a Python COM object
class PythonUtilities:
_public_methods_ = [ 'FunWithTwoInts' ]
_reg_progid_ = "PythonDemo.Utilities"

# NEVER copy the following ID!
# Use "print pythoncom.CreateGuid( )" to make a new one
_reg_clsid_ = "{40CEA5F8-4D4C-4655-BD8B-0E7B6A26B556}"

def FunWithTwoInts(self, inShort, inInt, outSum):
print "got as short:%d as int:%d sum:%d" % (inShort, inInt, outSum)
outSum = inShort + inInt

# Add code so that when this script is run by
# Python.exe, it self-registers
if __name__=='__main_ _':
print "Registering COM server..."
import win32com.server.register
win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(PythonUtil ities)
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Does anybody have experiences in this ?

Since there is no type library, the client code has to guess. And it
will pass the server whatever the client calls with. That could even be
a string or anything else - but why not try it out?

*IF* there is a type library that the server implements, you will get
and return what it describes.

Thomas

[Tim Roberts]

Alexander Eisenhuth <ne******@stacom-software.de> wrote:

Hello everybody,

i wonder how the win32 COM extension handles different C-int types
(short, int, long).
All of those types are passed on the stack as 32-bit dwords. No problem.
Another question for me is weather the
"out-direction" of parameter is supported "out of the box" ?
Yes, but you have to make them outputs from your function. Remember that
assigning to a parameter in Python does not change the parameter from the
caller's point of view:

def FunWithTwoInts( self, inShort, inInt ):
print "got as short:% as int%d" % (inShort, inInt)
return inShort + inInt

If you have multiple OUT parameters, you return a tuple of values.
To clarify look at the methode "FunWithTwoInts"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
#SimpleCOMServer.py - A sample COM server - almost as small as they come!
#
# We expose a single method in a Python COM object
class PythonUtilities:
_public_methods_ = [ 'FunWithTwoInts' ]
_reg_progid_ = "PythonDemo.Utilities"

# NEVER copy the following ID!
# Use "print pythoncom.CreateGuid( )" to make a new one
_reg_clsid_ = "{40CEA5F8-4D4C-4655-BD8B-0E7B6A26B556}"

def FunWithTwoInts(self, inShort, inInt, outSum):
print "got as short:%d as int:%d sum:%d" % (inShort, inInt, outSum)
outSum = inShort + inInt

# Add code so that when this script is run by
# Python.exe, it self-registers
if __name__=='__main_ _':
print "Registering COM server..."
import win32com.server.register
win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(PythonUtil ities)
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- Tim Roberts, ti**@probo.com
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