Hi all,
I'm trying to do a printing engine for Windows using win32ui and
win32gui, and I stumbled on a problem: the graphics to print may
contain random paths, that may have to be filled with a gradient. So I
browsed the docs and found win32gui.GradientFill, which does gradients
indeed, but only seems to work for triangles or rectangles (according
to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd144957(VS.85).aspx). So
far so good: filling the bounding rectangle for a path and clipping it
to the path contents is basically what I want, so I tried to find a
way to set the clipping region to a random path.
This is where my problem is: methods or functions to handle the
clipping region exist in win32ui and win32gui, and I seem to need a
few of both:
- Since neither the SelectClipPath function, nor the SelectClipPath
method on CDC objects seem to have been made available through
pywin32, it seems my only option is to build the clipping region from
the current path.
- There is indeed a function PathToRegion in win32gui, which seems to
do what I want. Problem: it uses handles as its parameters and return
values, and I already have a lot of things that use win32ui, and the
objects it defines: PyCDC, PyCRgn, and so on… I also need some methods
on PyCDC objects that I haven't found in win32gui (namely StartDoc,
StartPage, EndPage, EndDoc).
- So I searched for a way to convert or copy objects between the 2
representations. I found one for getting the handle for PyCDC objects
(GetHandleOutput) and it seems to work indeed: I can do a
win32gui.PathToRegion(my_pycdc.GetHandleOutput()), which returns a
handle on the region built from the current path, or so I think.
- Since I have to pass the region to my_pycdc.SelectClipRgn, which
only accepts PyCRgn objects, I now need a way to convert the handle on
the region to a PyCRgn. And this is where I'm stuck: I indeed found a
conversion function at C++ level (CRgn::FromHandle, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s0w0kk5s.aspx)
, but it doesn't seem to be exposed via the Python API. I tried to add
a new method to PyCRgn objects allowing to use this method, but got a
lot of compilation errors that I couldn't figure out (I'm far from
being a Windows programming expert…) and couldn't get anything usable.
In the current state of pywin32, is there any way to achieve what I'm
trying to do? If not, can anybody help me adding my method to the
PyCRgn object? It's basically a clone of CopyRgn using
CRgn::FromHandle instead of PyCRgn::GetRgn to get the region to copy.
Thanks!
- Eric -
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