[vbox-dev] What is a status of MSCOM Automation support?

[Nikolay Igotti]

    Grigory,

 Current SVN head do have automation support for Windows, so next major 
VBox release will have it  (or you can build one yourself). Backport to 
2.2.x or earlier is very unlikely, due to major interfaces change.

  Thanks,
    Nikolay.

Grigory Petrov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have tried to automate VirtualBox 2.2.2 on Windows Vista via Microsoft COM from scripting languages ( visual basic script, python etc.), but it seems that not all COM interfaces, methods and properties are available via OLE (IDispatch interface). What is a current status and is it any roadmap available? For example, i can create VirtualBox COM object via python:
>
> import win32com.client
> oVbox = win32com.client.Dispatch( "VirtualBox.VirtualBox" )
>
> But if i try to find a machine, it will not work since IMachine don't provide IDispatch:
>
> oMachine = oVbox.FindMachine( "kubuntu" )
>
> You have mentioned on forums that "python and vb COM is not yet ready". Is it just partially implemented (not all interfaces/methods/properties mapped to OLE) and you will add implementation in future releases, or are planning to somehow change it? Is it any roadmaps available?
>
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