[Zope] Make a Zope object single threaded

[Phil Harris]

Tim,

Have you called the pythoncom.CoInitialize() method before using your COM
object?

This is required to use COM objects relaibly from Zope.

hth

Phil
phil.harris@zweb.co.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Lakey" <tim@carbonwave.com>
To: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 6:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Zope] Make a Zope object single threaded


> I am using Com Object to pull in an ActiveX control for Windows Media
> Encoder.  I am experiencing some strange behaviours and crashes, which I
> believe has to do with Zope's threading model conflicting in subtle ways
> with Com's.  So, I am thinking, that if I turn off the threading on this
one
> object in Zope, it might solve my problem.  I don't really want more than
> one access to the Com object happening at a time anyway, so turning the
> threading off shouldn't cause a loss of desireable functionality in that
> sense.  Unless it causes problems within Zope.
>
> I remember there being a package that can be pulled into the product to do
> this, but I can't find it now.
>
> Do you have any advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Withers [mailto:chrisw@nipltd.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:05 AM
> > To: Tim Lakey
> > Cc: zope@zope.org
> > Subject: Re: [Zope] Make a Zope object single threaded
> >
> >
> > Tim Lakey wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to force a Zope product to be single
> > threaded within
> > > Zope?
> >
> > Out of curiosity, why do you want to? :-)
> >
> > Chris
>
>
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