RE: [python-win32] Changing desktop color

[Chris Stromberger] | How can I change the desktop color? I want to set it to black. Can | be just for the current session. Couple of options, neither from experience, just general knowledge. So YMM definitely V. 1) Investigate the SystemParametersInfo win32 function. That does quite a few t

[python-win32] Re: Changing desktop color

The Api call is SetSysColors. (not in pywin32 anywhere yet) You might be able to do something with ctypes. There's also a registry setting under HKCU\Control Panel\Colors if you want to change it permanently. hth Roger - Original Message - From: "Chris Stromberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[python-win32] launching an exe reboots XP...

I'm trying to launch a 3rd party analyzer .exe on XP; double-clicking in explorer runs as normal. From Python, I've tried startfile(), system(), spawnl(), and popen(), with various modes, from scripts and command session. All start the program's GUI to load, then generate a "Data integrity has

[python-win32] Changing desktop color (Chris Stromberger)

At Tuesday 8/2/2005 08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I change the desktop color? I want to set it to black. Can be just for the current session. SetSysColors: Ouch, unfortunately that functio