Re: [python-win32] Virtual print driver - similiar to winpdf

2008-09-22 Thread geoff
> Hi Geoff, > > redmon: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/ might be an option for you. > I use it for years now without any problems. In one case I provide printing > capabilities inside citrix apps for vpn users and in an other case I > extended an application with fax functionality. One can

[python-win32] idle detection on system?

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick Li
Hi, Does anyone know how I can detect if a system is idle? By idle I am referring to a user being away from the computer (no keyboard or mouse movement) for X minutes. Tried searching around but I haven't found anything that mentions how I can hook into these two events. Thanks in advance, Patri

Re: [python-win32] Virtual print driver - similiar to winpdf

2008-09-22 Thread Jürgen Kareta
Thanks for you guidance Tim. After reviewing I am coming to the same conclusion. This is trickier than you might guess. Does the application actually write to the printer using a Windows printer driver? Some old applications that just used a printer for logging wrote directly to the para

Re: [python-win32] Virtual print driver - similiar to winpdf

2008-09-22 Thread geoff
Thanks for you guidance Tim. After reviewing I am coming to the same conclusion. > This is trickier than you might guess. Does the application actually > write to the printer using a Windows printer driver? Some old > applications that just used a printer for logging wrote directly to the > par

Re: [python-win32] Virtual print driver - similiar to winpdf

2008-09-22 Thread Tim Roberts
geoff wrote: > Would creating a virtual print driver be possible with pywin32, > similiar to the windows pdf driver ? > WE have an old application that outputs data to a dotmatrix printer. > WE would like to extend this application and integrate it with another > application and the simplest way to

[python-win32] Re: Drag and drop of files (CF_HDROP)

2008-09-22 Thread Roger Upole
mir amicitas" wrote: Thank you for you help, that works perfectly. I can now drag files from my program (yay!). One more question . . . In the Microsoft specification for DoDragDrop there are 4 arguments (data, source, allowed effects, used effect). However in the pythoncom implementation on