If you’ve ever wanted to get a list of properties and methods support by an object, here’s how.
Copied from the Softimage wiki
def GetFunctions( dynDisp ):
"""returns a sorted and unique list of all functions defined in a dynamic dispatch"""
dict = {}
try:
for iTI in xrange(0,dynDisp._oleobj_.GetTypeInfoCount()):
typeInfo = dynDisp._oleobj_.GetTypeInfo(iTI)
typeAttr = typeInfo.GetTypeAttr()
for iFun in xrange(0,typeAttr.cFuncs):
funDesc = typeInfo.GetFuncDesc(iFun)
name = typeInfo.GetNames(funDesc.memid)[0]
dict[name] = 1
except:
pass # Object is not the dynamic dispatch I knew
ret = dict.keys()
ret.sort()
return ret
import pprint
funcs = GetFunctions(Application)
Application.LogMessage(pprint.pformat(funcs))
funcs = GetFunctions(Application.ActiveSceneRoot)
Application.LogMessage(pprint.pformat(funcs))
eX-SI 
My god that’s useful. Thanks. I’ve always wondered how you interrogate the dispatch interface to find this stuff out.
Also.. I can’t quite believe how hard it is to do that! The COM stuff always seems almost intentionally obfuscated.
BTW, you’re using a dictionary like a Set. You might want to just use a Set. (Not to mention that dict is an object type and mustn’t be used as a variable name. You’ll break any code that instantiates the dictionary type, e.g. myDictionaryInstance = dict() )
Thanks for the post though, dead useful.
Andy