On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a checkbox in Control Panel to do this microsoft has provided > it for the user. > I want to enable/disable that checkbox via Python, and want to know > how it can be done.
You'll probably need to figure out what checking that checkbox does under the covers. Does it change a value in the registry? Does it write an option to a file someplace? Does it start or stop a service? Once you know what the checkbox is doing, you can probably do the same thing via your python code. I certainly don't know which of those it is, or if it's something else entirely. It sounds like no one else here does either, so you'll need to figure it out for yourself. The other option is to automate opening the control panel and clicking the checkbox, as if you were clicking on things yourself. This tends to be a pretty complex and fragile process in my experience, though. You're almost always better off just performing the underlying action yourself. If you decide to go the former route, there are some tools that might help you figure out what's going on under the covers. Process monitor ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx ) allows you to watch processes, and all of the registry and file activity they perform. That's probably your best bet for seeing what's going on. If you decide to go the latter route and automate clicking buttons and such, check out the pywinauto project. The third option is to find a piece of code in some other language that does what you want, and show us where to find it. We can probably help translate that into python with you. -- Jerry _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
