From: Masaki Suketa <masaki.suketa@...>
Date: 2006-04-08T08:20:41+09:00
Subject: Re: win32ole with COM method taking two out refs

Hello,

In message "Re: win32ole with COM method taking two out refs"
    on 06/04/08, Adam Gardiner <adam.gardiner@bt.com> writes:

> In answer to your question:
> > What is the result of the following?
> >   p ARGV[3]
> >   p ARGV[4]
> 
> When I pass Object.new, the above outputs:
>     #<WIN32OLE:0x2a04408>
>     #<WIN32OLE:0x2a043f0>
> 
> If I try adding p ARGV[4].ole_methods, I get the following error:
> ... in 'ole_methods': failed to GetTypeInfo (RuntimeError)

It seems to me that your COM server does not provide type library
information to access from WIN32OLE.

> I've also tried:
>     session = WIN32OLE.new('Hyperion.HsvSession')
> 
> This actually seems to work, in that the method appears to succeed, and
> I'm then left with an object that has the right type library info
> attached. However, I'm then getting a RuntimeError when I try to call
> any method on the resulting session WIN32OLE object.
> Any ideas how I might proceed?

I have no good idea, but
could you try that the following work or not?

  session = WIN32OLE.new('Hyperion.HsvSession')
  obj = session._invoke(0, [], [])
  p obj

  Regards,
  Masaki Suketa