Re: win32com 'catastrophic failure'

2005-12-06 Thread Richie Hindle
[gerd] > com_error: (-2147418113, 'catastrophic failure', None, None) The last time I saw this error it was because I'd created a control instance but hadn't initialised it before trying to use it. I had to do something like this (apologies for the C++): IPersistStreamInit* IPSI = NULL;

Re: win32com 'catastrophic failure'

2005-12-05 Thread Tim Roberts
"g.franzkowiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm trying to interface to an .ocx file. >After successfully running makepy over it, the following is my problem: > > com_error: (-2147418113, 'catastrophic failure', None, None) That's not nearly enough information. -2147418113 is 0x8000, which

win32com 'catastrophic failure'

2005-12-05 Thread g.franzkowiak
I'm trying to interface to an .ocx file. After successfully running makepy over it, the following is my problem: com_error: (-2147418113, 'catastrophic failure', None, None) I found on http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q146120 a problem with "COleControl::IsInvokeAllow