Win32all is called Pywin32 now, and resides on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
Roger "George van den Driessche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It's taken me ages to find out why my window, built out of win32all, > wasn't > receiving any messages. Eventually I found the answer here: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-October/069451.html > > The important point being: >> IIRC you have to pass the return value of the RegisterClass() call (which >> is an atom) to the CreateWindowEx() function as the second parameter >> (lpClassName). > ... in other words, you can pass the name of your window class as the > second > parameter, but it will silently fail to work. (This holds for CreateWindow > too.) > > This is a bug for which it is pretty much impossible to work out the > workaround without being told it, so I'd like to put the workaround in a > more easily-found place. But where? win32all doesn't seem to have much > documentation, much less a bug database. > > In case anyone else needs to find this message by searching, some keywords > are: win32all, win32gui, WNDCLASS, RegisterClass, CreateWindow, > CreateWindowEx > > George > > ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list