[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-1820151 ] Solidworks API pass-by-reference

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Bugs item #1820151, was opened at 2007-10-26 03:29
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Category: pythonwin
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Joe Foley (foley)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Solidworks API pass-by-reference

Initial Comment:
When you run makepy on the SolidWorks api, it gets confused on any of the methods that use pass-by reference.  In particular, to anyone trying to do automation using OpenDoc6 runs into the problem of the errors and warnings arguments which are pass-by reference being considered non-optional, even though they are return values.

A fairly in-depth discussion and possible workarounds can be found at: http://ephemeralvalue.com/?p=16
and http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-December/175880.html

Is there a way to make makepy not get confused on these methods, or is this just a function of the SolidWorks API?
 

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>Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2008-04-06 11:59

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The solution would seem to be to call the function like:

model, errors, warnings = sw.OpenDoc6( 'cube.sldprt', constants.swDocPART,
constants.swOpenDocOptions_Silent, '', pythoncom.Missing, pythoncom.Missing
)

?

Please reopen this if I'm missing something.  Sadly, I can't change the
defaults as that would cause many other things to break...

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