[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-1031907 ] python ActiveX scripting - GetTypeInfo() didn't work

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Bugs item #1031907, was opened at 2004-09-21 17:56
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Fedor Ezeev (ezeev)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: python ActiveX scripting - GetTypeInfo() didn't work

Initial Comment:
I use some third party ActiveX Scripting host, named 
"OpenConf".
OpenConf load some scripts, and show script's 
subroutines for user's choice.
And there is visible difference between vba (or java) 
scripts and python scripts. Subroutines in vba scripts - 
are visible, but subroutines in python scripts - are not.
As OpenConf's author say, this is because python's 
IDispatch::GetTypeInfo() return NULL, instead of real 
TypeInfo.
Also IDispatch::GetTypeInfoCount() return 0, instead of 
1.
There is some simple application in attach, that 
demonstrate this problem. Code, that call GetTypeInfo() 
placed in file ascriptDlg.cpp inside CAscriptDlg::
OnInitDialog() method.

This sources are compiled with MS Visual C++ 6.0
Python - 2.3.4
pywin - 202
OS - Win2000 prof sp4 russian


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>Comment By: Fedor Ezeev (ezeev)
Date: 2004-10-08 12:48

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Sorry for my persistence.

There is probably a very small numbers of AXScript engines, 
that need to run not a whole script, but a single macros from 
the script. And there is even less AXScript engines, that gives 
to user an ability to choice that macros to run (like OpenConf 
do).

Moreover, VBScript and JScript correctly realize GetTypeInfo() 
and GetTypeInfoCount(), so those users of OpenConf, who 
want to write their scripts on python - write parrallel 
script-runner on VBScript, that do nothing but running pointed 
macroses.

So, if you wont to do it - just say "wont fix", not "invalid", 
please.

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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2004-10-08 10:22

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It does return an empty type info - but the Dispatch object
does support dynamic dispatch.  ie, a browser would not be
able to see them, but they can be called.  OpenConf should
just query the IDispatch object for whatever function name
the user is trying to call.  Other AXScript engines work
fine with Python, as they correctly treat the typeinfo as
optional.

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Comment By: Fedor Ezeev (ezeev)
Date: 2004-09-21 17:58

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sorry, here is the example

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