I'm working on a kiosk application, and am trying to prevent people from
breaking out of our interface with Windows shortcut keys.
Using pyHook I've managed to block the Windows keys, control keys and alt keys,
but ctrl-alt-delete still works.
This thread suggests that the combination is allo
Thanks for the tips.
Using that method I'm able to obtain the filename for about 75% of the fonts in
my Windows directory, but I can't resolve fonts with names such as this:
- the font's name is Arno Pro. It shows up in font choosers with names like
"Arno Pro", "Arno Pro Caption", "Arno Pro Dis
> A much better solution is to search through the registry
> values in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
Three things concern me with this method:
1) if I understand correctly, Windows appends the language to the font title.
In other words, for German the Arial font is "arial german". Normally th
I'm trying to access the following function from the Windows API:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd144885(VS.85).aspx
I'm sure I'm drastically over simplifying, but I'm testing it like this:
import win32api
print win32api.GetFontData()
This of course errors out with "AttributeError: fu
I'm trying to get the online/offline status of a printer, and using WMI I'm
finding it very slow. Here's the code I'm working, maybe there's some way to
opimize it? Or some other way? I'm able to use win32print to query the status
of an online printer, but not to find out whether its online or
I'm trying to read the statusbar text of a window under Python. I'm guessing
win32gui is the way to go, and thought the GetWindowText function was
promising, but alas I can't get it to return anything other than the text of
the titlebar.
Can anyone think of any clever ways to do this?
Here's
to
windows control panel --> display --> settings and clicking on that second
monitor.
--- On Thu, 4/30/09, Tim Golden wrote:
> From: Tim Golden
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Programatically activating secondary monitor?
> To:
> Cc: python-win32@python.org
> Date:
I'm wondering if there's a way to enable a second monitor in Windows from
Python or otherwise programatically? Currently I use the utility UltraMon,
which works, but it sure would be nice to be able to do this from Python.
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I'm having trouble getting the printer status in Windows. Ideally I'd like to
get the info contained in the "Status" column when you open a printer from the
Windows control panel --> printers.
I've been using the routine pasted at the end of this email, which works for
some printers, but not o
I'd like to get a list of available com ports on a Windows machine. I've seen
some reference to a function EnumSerialPorts but can't find any documentation.
Thanks for any help.
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Run it from commandline and see if an error message is printed the console?
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, John_Nowlan wrote:
> From: John_Nowlan
> Subject: [python-win32] Pythonwin starts, displays main window, interactive
> window 'frame', then exits
> To: python-win32@python.org
> Date: Thursday,
> Is this capability not already part of XP?
> I've got my machines set to go to sleep after 1 hour,
> no programming needed.
> Right click on the Desktop, Properties, ScreenSaver, Power.
A couple of problems with doing it like that:
1) if you set your computer to go to sleep after X minutes, you
> I've been using the following method that I found on
> ActiveState's Cookbook, which I modified a little
> (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/360649/):
Does that method ever hang during shutdown? I've tested the WMI method a few
times and got one hang, where it was asking me to terminate a pr
And thus I say for the second time in 24 hours: Eureka!
For anyone else coming down this path, here's how to shutdown, reboot or logoff
Windows, each with the option to force the action. In other words, you can
force Windows to reboot even if its asking if you want to save a document.
nLogOf
>
> import wmi
>
> wmi.WMI(privileges=["Shutdown"]).Win32_OperatingSystem()[0].Shutdown ()
>
>
Stylin, works. The only thing it doesn't do that I personally need it to do is
the "force shutdown". In other words "shutdown.exe -f". I found this page with
some hints but couldn't get it to work:
Reg files are just text files, so why not just create the text files yourself?
Here's a reg file for example:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Gizmoware\Whatever]
"Name"="Yada"
"Number"="something"
--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Tim Roberts <[EMAI
I'm wondering if there's some way to reboot or shutdown Windows from within
Python?
I can log out like this:
win32api.ExitWindowsEx(4)
And according to the documentation, I should be able to shutdown like this:
win32api.ExitWindowsEx(2)
But that returns the following error:
'A required priv
Eureka! In case anyone else comes down this path, the trick is to use
HWND_BROADCAST to send the message to all windows. So the code to turn off all
monitors:
SC_MONITORPOWER = 0xF170
win32gui.SendMessage(win32con.HWND_BROADCAST, win32con.WM_SYSCOMMAND,
SC_MONITORPOWER, 2)
According to the doc
> The article you mention suggests using the desktop window
> handle -- available via GetDesktopWindow (). You might try that?
I have a feeling that was progress, but still no reaction on my monitors.
Here's the code including the new clue:
SC_MONITORPOWER = 0xF170
handle = win32gui.GetDesktopWi
I'm trying to turn a monitor off from a Python script. I can do this using the
program "wizmo", so its possible from Windows. I found this script which
describes a method using SendMessage:
http://fci-h.blogspot.com/2007/03/turn-off-your-monitor-via-code-c.html
Translated to Python, here's what
> Interesting. You're saying that the normal
> del kb is not enough to clean this up?
Whoops, user error. I had declared my com object as global so I could delete it
from somewhere
else, but forgot to declare it as global before deleting it
Works fine now, thanks.
And for anyone coming dow
client.Dispatch("Kbd.mfSoftkeys")
kb.LoadKeyboard("keyboard_file.kbd")
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> Alec Bennett wrote:
> > I'm ending task on a process that has a system tray icon, which works but
> > it leaves an icon
> be
I'm ending task on a process that has a system tray icon, which works but it
leaves an icon behind
in the system tray, which only goes away if I mouse over it. Can anyone think
of a way to force a
refresh of the system tray without mousing over it?
I know this is adding duct tape over duct tape,
I'm trying to save the output of some TTS to a sound file, is this possible?
Here's how I'm doing the TTS, though am certainly open to other methods:
import pythoncom, win32com
import win32api, win32com.client
pythoncom.CoInitialize ()
s = win32com.client.Dispatch("SAPI.SpVoice")
s.Speak("hi the
What do you need to do to it? If you're simply remote
controlling it (triggering commands), you might look
into PostMessage.
--- Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michel Claveau wrote:
> >
> >> I don't believe that Outlook Express exposes an
> IDispatch interface. I
> >> think that
Please post what you find on this, I'm curious too.
If you do go the enum windows route, It thought I'd
post my notes on this since I recently got it working.
It's somewhat confusing (for me at least) since it
uses a callback:
# Callback function for findWindowHandle
def windowEnumerationHandler
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