Re: [python-win32] Reading constants

2009-01-27 Thread Vernon Cole
Charlie: In my experience, which goes back 35 years, constants like this are pretty much what the word implies -- constant. They are used to communicate between two software packages which were made by different people on different machines using different languages. If the value of the "magic n

[python-win32] Reading constants

2009-01-27 Thread Charlie Clark
Hiya, I'm pretty new to COM but fairly used to Python. Still got most things to work just struggling a little with reading a constant. I'm currently scripting Adobe InDesign (CS4) where I create a document, export a PDF and close it withouth saving. All the documentation I've come across

Re: [python-win32] Windows Service, user activity and timed message box

2009-01-27 Thread Tim Golden
Ferdinand Sousa wrote: Greetings: I wanted some help on the following topics: A] How do I set up a script to run as a service? Are there any prerequisites for this? There are a few recipes in the cookbook. Here's one for starters: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576450/ B] How do we c

[python-win32] Windows Service, user activity and timed message box

2009-01-27 Thread Ferdinand Sousa
Greetings: I wanted some help on the following topics: A] How do I set up a script to run as a service? Are there any prerequisites for this? B] How do we check duration since last user activity -- Assuming that the screen is set to turn off/display a screensaver after a certain duration, I woul