[python-win32] Programmatically switch desktops in windows 10?
Windows 10 has multiple desktops built-in. Is it it possible to programmatically switch between desktops? How about programmatically moving an active window between desktops? Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Figuring out why a window is losing focus
Where can I safely download this Spy program you are all talking about? Thanks! On 2/8/2016 9:00 AM, python-win32-requ...@python.org wrote: Re: Figuring out why a window is losing focus ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] getting Windows key codes
The easiest thing to do is follow the instructions here: http://ahkscript.org/docs/KeyList.htm#SpecialKeys And use the keyboard hook to report the keystrokes. Then, you can use https://github.com/t4ngo/dragonfly To do all the key re-mapping. by the way, the dragonfly source code has all the ctypes calls to interact with the keyboard. Just about every key and key combination you can think of is in there. I hope that helps. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Programmatically turn off mouse auto-positioning
Am 04.02.2014 19:51, schrieb reckoner: Hi, In the control panel, under mouse settings, there is a checkbox to automatically move the mouse to the default button in a dialog box. Is there a way to programmatically turn this off/on using Python? I'm referring to windows 7/8. Thanks! SystemParametersInfo with the SPI_SETSNAPTODEFBUTTON parameter. No idea if pywin32 exposes this but there's always ctypes. Thanks for the tip! For posterity, here it is: def set_mouse_autosnap_to_default(state): The mouse is auto-positioned in the control panel. This turns on/off this auto-snap. :state: True/False (set to bool) h = ctypes.c_void_p() # set postion ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoW(0x60,state,ctypes.byref(h),0) # recover position # print ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoW(0x5F,0,ctypes.byref(h),0) ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Programmatically turn off mouse auto-positioning
Hi, In the control panel, under mouse settings, there is a checkbox to automatically move the mouse to the default button in a dialog box. Is there a way to programmatically turn this off/on using Python? I'm referring to windows 7/8. Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Sending Keystrokes to Active Windows (leegold)
Use dragonfly:
https://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/
Then,
(FocusWindow(title='firefox')+Key('c-t') ).execute()
will open a new tab in firefox.
good luck!
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Re: [python-win32] PumpMessages in main thread called by embedded Python causes crash
Thanks for your reply. Yes, the app works fine if I don't PumpMessages in my own code. There is no console that the application fires up when it runs the embedded Python code. In this situation, how do I (or, can I?) pump for my own messages if the application is doing some other kind of event loop, as you describe? Thanks! On Saturday, April 28, 2012 10:15:50 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: I don't know why it crashes exactly, but if the other app has its own event loop then things are going to get screwey - PumpMessages never returns (well, not until a WM_QUIT message is received), so their event loop will never run. I'd guess that their event loop and event handlers have some assumptions built in to it - eg, they might be assuming that their event loop as set something up that one of the message handlers relies on. You running your own event loop will prevent that setup from happening so one of their handlers will crash. Does that app work OK if you don't call PumpMessages? If so, a work around might be to check if you have a console, and if you don't, assume some other event loop must be running. Mark On 29/04/2012 2:21 AM, reckoner wrote: I have written some code that catches windows events that also includes the usual PumpMessages, and all of this works fine when I run it from the Python interpreter (Python version 2.6). However, when a separate application that has Python embedded calls the same code, the calling application crashes. I have tracked this down to the PumpMessages call in my code. My question is why does this work perfectly well from the interpreter, but cause a crash when called from the embedded Python running in a separate application. Note that I don't have access to the separate application in which the Python call is embedded and when it crashes it does not provide any kind of traceback. It took a long time to narrow it down to the PumpMessages call. Any advice appreciated. I am really stuck here. By the way, this is on Windows XP 32-bit. Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] PumpMessages in main thread called by embedded Python causes crash
I have written some code that catches windows events that also includes the usual PumpMessages, and all of this works fine when I run it from the Python interpreter (Python version 2.6). However, when a separate application that has Python embedded calls the same code, the calling application crashes. I have tracked this down to the PumpMessages call in my code. My question is why does this work perfectly well from the interpreter, but cause a crash when called from the embedded Python running in a separate application. Note that I don't have access to the separate application in which the Python call is embedded and when it crashes it does not provide any kind of traceback. It took a long time to narrow it down to the PumpMessages call. Any advice appreciated. I am really stuck here. By the way, this is on Windows XP 32-bit. Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Need workaround for error: (299, 'GetModuleFileNameEx' with win32process
when using win32process, I get the following error when I try this on a Windows XP 64-bit machine: error: (299, 'GetModuleFileNameEx', 'Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory request was completed.') I don't get this error on a Windows XP 32-bit machine. After some drilling around, I found out that this is because I am using a 32-bit version of win32process to interrogate a 64-bit running application. Now, I have to support both 32 and 64-bit Windows XP systems, so I'm looking for a workaround for this. I am running the 32-bit version of Python on a 64-bit Windows XP system. Any help appreciated. This is for Python version 2.6.2. Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] When closing windows, how to handle save changes? dialogs?
When closing windows, I need to somehow handle the case when the window I am trying to close spawns a child dialog window that asks whether I want to save changes or something like that . The trouble is that the dialog could be different for every kind of window I am trying to close and I would like to catch those in each case, and then later handle them separately. I just don't want to forcefully terminate the process in question, however. Any help appreciated. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] How to wait for context menu (i.e. right-click menu) pop-up?
Hi, A script needs something on the context menu ( obtained either by right-click or by appskey ). The trouble is that sometimes the pop-up context menu takes an unpredictable time to load, so I need a way of detecting whether or not the context menu is ready for subsequent actions before the rest of the script can run. Any way to do detect the availability of this context menu? Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Get executables corresponding to system tray icons?
Hi, Is there a way to use Python to get a list of all the icons in the system tray (lower right hand corner) and their associated processes and executables? Here is a thread on how to do this using AHK: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic17314.html but it relies heavily on AHK, and the problem with that is that it is difficult to get at the output from AHK scripts (without writing to a file or the clipboard, for example). Note that I'm interested this for in Windows XP/7 Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Multiple versions of Python on same machine with regsvr32.exe PYDs
Mark: Thanks for your reply. I'm using the Python extension described here: http://www.synapseadaptive.com/joel/index_old.html Basically, the natlink.pyd file is called ( after being registered with regsvr32 ) indirectly by the speech recognition engine. Thus, if the natlink.pyd file is built using, say, Python version 2.6, and I have another version of Python installed, say, Python version 2.7, then when the functions inside of natlink.pyd are called, they need to somehow be able to figure out the correct Python path and other linked libraries. So, I'm not sure how this works in terms of the registry and how Python figures out which Python version it should use and where the corresponding libraries are. Any ideas here? I would like to have multiple Python installations on the same machine so I can migrate between two versions, but I admit all of this registry stuff is confusing to me and I don't imagine it will be so simple as simply changing the Python path. Thanks in advance and for all your great work bringing Python to us Windows users. On 7/14/2011 9:24 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: On 14/07/2011 4:39 AM, reckoner wrote: Hi, I have been researching this for a couple of days now, and although virtualenv seems like the answer, I have been reading about problems with applications that require specific versions of Python in the registry so it can find corresponding PYD and DLL files. This means that it is more complicated than just setting the path differently for each Python installation. I'm not with you there. What problems specifically? In other words, if you need c: regsrv32.exe Some_python.pyd regsvr32.exe doesn't work with .pyd files - what were you hoping to achieve? then they're going to be problems if you try to change your default Python installation by just manipulating the Path. Basically, my problem is I need to slowly migrate my entire software stack from Python version 2.6 to Python version 2.7. What specific problems are you seeing? Mark ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Multiple versions of Python on same machine with regsvr32.exe PYDs
Hi, I have been researching this for a couple of days now, and although virtualenv seems like the answer, I have been reading about problems with applications that require specific versions of Python in the registry so it can find corresponding PYD and DLL files. This means that it is more complicated than just setting the path differently for each Python installation. In other words, if you need c: regsrv32.exe Some_python.pyd then they're going to be problems if you try to change your default Python installation by just manipulating the Path. Basically, my problem is I need to slowly migrate my entire software stack from Python version 2.6 to Python version 2.7. Any help appreciated. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Access Most Recently Used (MRU) entries ?
On 17/06/2011 14:19, reckoner wrote: Depends what you need to do. To add in item, use the SHAddToRecentDocs API from the shell module: code import sys from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon shell.SHAddToRecentDocs ( shellcon.SHARD_PATHW, sys.executable ) /code To access its contents (in file system terms): code import os, sys from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon mru = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath (0, shellcon.CSIDL_RECENT, 0) print os.listdir (mru) /code To access it as shell folder: code import os, sys from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon mru_pidl = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderLocation (0, shellcon.CSIDL_RECENT) desktop = shell.SHGetDesktopFolder () mru_folder = desktop.BindToObject ( mru_pidl, None, shell.IID_IShellFolder ) for i in mru_folder: print mru_folder.GetDisplayNameOf (i, shellcon.SHGDN_NORMAL) /code TJG Thank you! This is a big help. Is there a way to find out which program called which item in the MRU list and when that occurred? ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Access Most Recently Used (MRU) entries ?
Is it possible to get access to the Most Recently Used (MRU) list in windows. This is where Windows keeps a list of the most recently opened documents and programs. By the way, I'm on Windows XP. Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Using Flexible Win32 message pump to monitor window open/close for all application?
-- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:17:01 -0700 From: Tim Robertst...@probo.com To: Python-Win32 Listpython-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Using Flexible Win32 message pump to monitor window open/close for all application? Message-ID:4d93b9ed.9010...@probo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 reckoner wrote: Which is listed in the Python cookbook, second edition. Is it possible to use this to monitor the open/close of different windows? Basically, I would like to trigger an action for a specific window or handle when that window class or handle opens/closes. Can this recipe help with that? Any ideas on getting started with this? Do you mean a window in another application? That requires installing a Windows hook, and a Windows hook callback must reside in a DLL (so that DLL can be injected into the other process), which cannot be done in Python. There is the pyHook package, but I don't know if it is still being developed. http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/developer.shtml Thanks your reply. I'm guessing from your response that the cookbook recipe can only deal with open/close events that it throws itself. So far, the only way I have found to monitor window open/close events is the Active Accessibility (AA) layer via pyAA. The problem is that AA is really dated and is theoretically supposed to be superseded by the UI automation layer, but there are no similar Python bindings for that (and it relies on the .NET framework ). Here is the link for a description of pyAA: http://web.archive.org/web/20080510165211/mindtrove.info/articles/gui-automation-with-pyaa/ Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Using Flexible Win32 message pump to monitor window open/close for all application?
Hi, I have been looking at the following recipe: Recipe 82236: Flexible Win32 message pump using MsgWaitForMultipleObjects (Python) http://code.activestate.com/recipes/82236-flexible-win32-message-pump-using-msgwaitformultip Which is listed in the Python cookbook, second edition. Is it possible to use this to monitor the open/close of different windows? Basically, I would like to trigger an action for a specific window or handle when that window class or handle opens/closes. Can this recipe help with that? Any ideas on getting started with this? Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Automation triggered based on image in window?
I'm trying to do some automation using Python and pywin. Is there a way to trigger when a particular image is shown? In other words, I am trying to get the functionality that is described here: http://www.vtaskstudio.com/images/screenshot_recognition.png and likewise here: http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/ImageSearch.htm using Python tools. Anybody know anything like this? ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Find containing window given a control handle
Hi, Given the handle of a text field or button embedded in some window, how can I find the parent window that contains the handle? Right now, I'm exhaustively going through every visible window and matching every child handle. Perhaps there is a better way? Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] make a window transparent using win32?
Dear Tim: by the way, quick question, do you know of a way to get the extended style bits? I haven't been able to find anything on MSDN. In other words, if I do as you suggest below for a few windows, how can I query those windows again to see if those bits that I previously set using SetWindowLong() are indeed set? Thanks! On 12/28/2010 1:44 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: Reckoner wrote: Using Python win32 extensions, how do you make an arbitrary window on winXP transparent? I'll assume you already know how to find the window handle of your victim window. The key concept is that you need to set the WS_EX_LAYERED bit in the extended styles, then set the transparency level using SetLayeredWindowAttributes. You can look up both APIs in MSDN for more detailed information. import win32gui import win32con win32gui.SetWindowLong(handle, win32con.GWL_EXSTYLE, win32con.WS_EX_LAYERED) win32gui.SetLayeredWindowAttributes(handle, 0, 128, win32con.LWA_ALPHA) ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] make a window transparent using win32?
Using Python win32 extensions, how do you make an arbitrary window on winXP transparent? Thanks! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Detecting when a system has multiple monitors (desktops)
Tony: All of this is handled in the dragonfly package: http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/ Note that you do not need speech recognition in order to use it. In particular, look at from dragonfly import Window, monitors and the window.py file in the distribution. Good luck! On 8/24/2010 4:33 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: Does anyone know how to detect if a system has multiple monitors (desktops) through Python? I've written a program which allows the user to open multiple stand-alone windows. When I run this program I usually drag these windows to my secondary monitor. I was to save the screen coordinates of the window locations so they can be restored. First, the program must detect the multiple desktops and then understand if the screen coordinates of those windows are related to the primary or secondary desktop. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
