On 11/18/05, Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hermann Maier: > > > i am using the com api of a program and if this program is shut down and > > my program calls a method of the api, it crashs. that means, i need to > > check, if the com server is still available, before i can call for it. > > The server should not shut down while clients have outstanding > references to objects within it. >
The Excel COM object has this behavior - if you call the Quit() method or (if you're controlling an interactive instance) the excel window is closed, further calls to the COM object will throw errors. I couldn't find a solution to this other than to just make sure you didn't do that. However, I didn't know about the ROT and maybe that will work. > > but i would prefer a > > solution that is more clean from the beginning. perhaps there is a > > windows event that can tell me, wenn the other application, that hosts > > the com server, is closed or perhaps i can do something with the guid of > > the com server, maybe there is a call where i can check, if a certain > > com server is available. > > All running COM servers should be in the "Running Object Table" > (ROT). If you search the net for this term you will find code that can > show what is in the ROT, so there must be an API. > > Neil > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
