Re: [python-win32] set mouse pointer to custom image?

2011-01-16 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks, we'll investigate this tomorrow and see if highlighting is enough. On 1/16/11, Roger Upole wrote: > There's an accessibility option built into Windows to do something > like this. Look under Control Panel->Mouse->Options, and you > should see an option to highlight the mouse cursor when

Re: [python-win32] Passing parameters to FoxPro COM methods

2011-01-16 Thread Roger Upole
Dynamic objects have a _make_method method that you can use to ensure that it will be called with parameters. Roger "Richard Lawrence" wrote in message news:AANLkTi=5d1egw5dxru-bu_-ioka4nqvsnx-fotw_v...@mail.gmail.com... Dear Pythonistas, I still haven't figured out a way around this

Re: [python-win32] set mouse pointer to custom image?

2011-01-16 Thread Roger Upole
There's an accessibility option built into Windows to do something like this. Look under Control Panel->Mouse->Options, and you should see an option to highlight the mouse cursor when the CTRL key is pressed. Roger "Alex Hall" wrote in message news:AANLkTi=y0mX86gcR67Ot=szzdjq1mfhvuzx-+x

Re: [python-win32] Boolean type changed in Python 3.0?

2011-01-16 Thread Roger Upole
A fix has been committed to the code base, but there hasn't been a release in the meantime. If you can build from source, check out the current CVS and make sure it solves your issue. Roger "Tom" wrote in message news:loom.20110115t161528-...@post.gmane.org... >I have the same problems and

[python-win32] set mouse pointer to custom image?

2011-01-16 Thread Alex Hall
Hello all, I have been on the list for quite a while, but rarely post. I have sort of a strange question. My sister is visually impaired. She can read print, but finding the mouse pointer is often quite difficult so she has to move the mouse up to the top left of the screen (it will stop there so s

Re: [python-win32] Trouble with SetWindowLong().

2011-01-16 Thread Ben Timby
No problem Tim. I am not a Windows developer so I barely know what I am talking about. I am in fact NOT in a windowed environment. I have a background process that is spawned by a GUI that I want to kill gracefully. I am trying to emulate the pattern that I use on Linux: os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTE

Re: [python-win32] wbemtest might be interesting

2011-01-16 Thread Stef Mientki
On 16-01-2011 17:44, Tim Golden wrote: > On 16/01/2011 12:51 PM, Stef Mientki wrote: >> hello, >> >> I just got tipped about a program that's standard available in windows, >> wbemtest >> might be interesting to find or browse wmi settings. > > Thanks. It is quite useful. If you want a slight

Re: [python-win32] wbemtest might be interesting

2011-01-16 Thread Tim Golden
On 16/01/2011 12:51 PM, Stef Mientki wrote: hello, I just got tipped about a program that's standard available in windows, wbemtest might be interesting to find or browse wmi settings. Thanks. It is quite useful. If you want a slightly less powerful, python-based alternative, you might w

Re: [python-win32] Trouble with SetWindowLong().

2011-01-16 Thread Tim Golden
On 16/01/2011 2:51 PM, Ben Timby wrote: IIUC, WndProc receives messages from the message pump. I am attempting to override the default message handler with my own. The code I posted is a contrived example. So really, I am not interested in the correctness of it, but why does the call to SetWindow

Re: [python-win32] Trouble with SetWindowLong().

2011-01-16 Thread David Hutto
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Ben Timby wrote: > IIUC, WndProc receives messages from the message pump. I am attempting > to override the default message handler with my own. The code I posted > is a contrived example. So really, I am not interested in the > correctness of it, but why does the

Re: [python-win32] Trouble with SetWindowLong().

2011-01-16 Thread Ben Timby
IIUC, WndProc receives messages from the message pump. I am attempting to override the default message handler with my own. The code I posted is a contrived example. So really, I am not interested in the correctness of it, but why does the call to SetWindowLong() fail the way it does when I call it

[python-win32] wbemtest might be interesting

2011-01-16 Thread Stef Mientki
hello, I just got tipped about a program that's standard available in windows, wbemtest might be interesting to find or browse wmi settings. cheers, Stef ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [python-win32] Trouble with SetWindowLong().

2011-01-16 Thread Tim Golden
On 16/01/2011 4:06 AM, Ben Timby wrote: I am using pywin32 214 on Windows XP 32 bit. I am calling SetWindowLong like so: -- import win32api, win32con def fun(): print 'fun' h = win32api.GetCurrentProcess() win32api.SetWindowLong(h, win32con.GWL_WNDPROC, fun) -- But receiving: TypeError: