Greg, On colours, I might have turned up what you need with a bit of Googling and experimentation.
The relevant API hook is: win32api.GetSysColor(element_ref) element_ref is an integer which refers to a particular UI element - there's a list of elements and their values here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724371(VS.85).aspx This returns a windows RGB value as an int, but it's really a 32-bit binary value. First 8 bits (Most Significant) are system reserved and set to 0*, next 8 are Blue, next 8 are Green and final 8 bits (Least Significant) are Red. So kind of BGR rather than RGB! As it returns as an int, some kind of binary padding may be needed if the values for A, G or B are zero. * these may be used for Alpha in newer, fancier (post XP) versions of Windows - not sure, MSDN is ambiguous. MSDN docs are a bit useless on this, as they want you to use built-in macros which aren't exposed to Python to get individual values, but this site has the skinny from the binary perspective: http://www.functionx.com/win32/Lesson12.htm Just gave this a test, pulling desktop colours - seems to work a charm, once you get past the weird encoding, and pulls colours direct from the system-wide settings in Display Properties. This means it should correctly grab custom colour-schemes, which is an accessibility win. Messy example - default Windows XP desktop background, best described as blueish: >>> import win32api as w >>> foo = w.GetSysColor(1) # 1 for Desktop >>> foo 9981440 >>> foo = bin(foo) >>> foo '0b100110000100111000000000' >>> rgbtuple = (int(foo[-8:],2), int(foo[-16:-8],2), int(foo[2:-16],2)) # >>> (red, green, blue) >>> rgbtuple (0, 78, 152) So, Red = 0, Green = 78, Blue = 152. Plugging these values into mspaint gives a perfect match for the desktop. I'll do some more poking around tomorrow around fonts, but based on my brief research tonight, I'm not hopeful - might just need to detect Windows version with platform.win32_ver() and apply the appropriate defaults. Cheers, Alex On 2 November 2010 18:00, Randy Syring <[email protected]> wrote: > Greg, > > FWIW, sounds like questions python-win32 list might be able to help you > with. > > -------------------------------------- > Randy Syring > Intelicom > Direct: 502-276-0459 > Office: 502-212-9913 > > For the wages of sin is death, but the > free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom 6:23) > > > > Greg Ewing wrote: >> >> Alex Holland wrote: >> >>> I noticed the system font on Windows XP looked too small, so had a >>> poke around in the sources. I see it's theoretically 8pt Tahoma, but >>> comparing it to renderings in WordPad, it seems to be 7pt. >> >> Fonts on Windows seem to be an endless source of mystery and >> confusion. My development system for Win PyGUI is currently >> 2000; maybe XP uses a different default font size. >> >> As you can see, I made several attempts at finding out the >> default font family and size, none of which seemed to work >> properly, and I ended up hard coding something that seemed >> to give the right results on my system. >> >> If anyone can tell me what the *right* way is to get the >> default font on Windows, I'd be glad to know! >> >>> Could I also suggest adding Windows XP's not-quite-grey to the >>> standard colour library? I make the RGB values (0.93, 0.91, 0.85) - >>> this matches the background that appears around RadioButtons on Win32. >> >> Maybe, but it's going to be different on other versions of >> Windows, and probably varies with the selected theme as >> well. Again, it would be better to ask the system, if there's >> a way to do that. >> > _______________________________________________ > Pygui mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pygui > _______________________________________________ Pygui mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pygui
