Re: [python-win32] Finding users home directories

2008-01-13 Thread James Matthews
I guess that would help! :) On Jan 12, 2008 11:50 PM, Guilherme Polo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/1/12, Guilherme Polo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [python-win32] Custom control, WS_CHILD

2008-01-13 Thread Thomas Heller
Henry Baxter schrieb: Problem solved! I was using ctypes.byref to pass a reference to the window class, but before calling CreateWindow the window class in question went out of scope and was destroyed. I'm worried this type of problem will happen more often, but I'm not sure how to stop

Re: [python-win32] Custom control, WS_CHILD

2008-01-13 Thread Henry Baxter
Thanks for the tip, venster not only has a neat way to resolve this issue, but plenty of other really useful things (lists of windows constants and other stuff that take time to assemble). On Jan 13, 2008 4:03 AM, Thomas Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henry Baxter schrieb: Problem solved!

[python-win32] Defining GUIDs and passing them as parameters

2008-01-13 Thread Chris Meredith
Greetings. I'm writing a UI Automation client and needing to define GUIDs as constants, as well as pass them as parameters. Sadly, I come from a C++/C# background, and can't remember just precisely what library handles GUIDs (I'm assuming comtypes?). -C-

Re: [python-win32] Finding users home directories

2008-01-13 Thread Mark Hammond
it's possible, but not slick. If you wanted to follow their line and use WMI to access the registry, you could additionally use the WMI Win32_UserAccount class to work out the SID you need. For example, to find my profile on this machine, the following seems to work: (uses the wmi module

Re: [python-win32] Defining GUIDs and passing them as parameters

2008-01-13 Thread Mark Hammond
pywin32 has a GUID type, but as GUIDs can't be passed via a VARIANT, I assume your object will not implement IDispatch - so you may be forced to call your object from comtypes. There is a comtypes mailing list (which I don't have on hand) that is probably better suited for comtypes assistance.

Re: [python-win32] Finding users home directories

2008-01-13 Thread Tim Golden
Mark Hammond wrote: it's possible, but not slick. If you wanted to follow their line and use WMI to access the registry, you could additionally use the WMI Win32_UserAccount class to work out the SID you need. For example, to find my profile on this machine, the following seems to work:

Re: [python-win32] Custom control, WS_CHILD

2008-01-13 Thread Thomas Heller
Henry Baxter schrieb: Thanks for the tip, venster not only has a neat way to resolve this issue, but plenty of other really useful things (lists of windows constants and other stuff that take time to assemble). Then you might also be interested in the ctypeslib package; it is able to make