Re: [python-win32] Setting UserInitials in Office
On 1:59 PM, Tim Golden wrote: On 28/04/2010 14:23, Mike Driscoll wrote: Sorry for the delay in checking this out. I was out of the office yesterday. Your code almost worked for reading the key, but I get a tuple back: [goes back to check what he wrote...] That's why my code does this (note the nearly-invisible underscore before the equals), discarding the datatype value which is the second item of the tuple returned: username, _ = _winreg.QueryValueEx (k, UserName) TJG Ah...I must have had something in my eye at the time. Anyway, I figured out how to get the information from it, but not how to write it. I tried writing to the Registry using _winreg.SetValueEx and passed a plain string and then various encoded strings (like utf16, utf32, etc). It writes just fine, but if I open Microsoft Word and check for the new initials or Full Name, Word just shows junk. - Mike ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Setting UserInitials in Office
Mike Driscoll wrote: Ah...I must have had something in my eye at the time. Anyway, I figured out how to get the information from it, but not how to write it. I tried writing to the Registry using _winreg.SetValueEx and passed a plain string and then various encoded strings (like utf16, utf32, etc). It writes just fine, but if I open Microsoft Word and check for the new initials or Full Name, Word just shows junk. This works: _winreg.SetValueEx( k, UserInitials, 0, _winreg.REG_BINARY, utimr\0 ) Note the trailing 0. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza Boekelheide, Inc. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Setting UserInitials in Office
On 27/04/2010 22:43, Tim Roberts wrote: Tim Golden wrote: On 26/04/2010 23:56, Tim Roberts wrote: Mike Driscoll wrote: ... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo I tried to use the base64 module to decode it, but I must be doing something wrong. Does anyone know of a good way to get and set this information? I am dealing with users on Windows XP and Python 2.4 ??? The strings in there are not encoded in any way. They are plaintext Unicode strings. They happen to be identified as REG_BINARY, but that's just a silly accident. On my (WinXP SP3, Office 2003) machine, they look to be utf16-encoded strings (null-terminated): Exactly. They are really just REG_SZ, although they set the type as REG_BINARY for their own inscrutable reasons. Ah. Amazing how I managed to read your explanation and then internally translate it into meaning something rather different. Hopefully my code will have helped the OP out at any rate... I seem to be having a bad week for offering help :) TJG ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Setting UserInitials in Office
On 1:59 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
On 27/04/2010 22:43, Tim Roberts wrote:
Tim Golden wrote:
On 26/04/2010 23:56, Tim Roberts wrote:
Mike Driscoll wrote:
...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo
I tried to use the base64 module to decode it, but I must be doing
something wrong. Does anyone know of a good way to get and set this
information? I am dealing with users on Windows XP and Python 2.4
??? The strings in there are not encoded in any way. They are
plaintext Unicode strings. They happen to be identified as
REG_BINARY,
but that's just a silly accident.
On my (WinXP SP3, Office 2003) machine, they look to be utf16-encoded
strings (null-terminated):
Exactly. They are really just REG_SZ, although they set the type as
REG_BINARY for their own inscrutable reasons.
Ah. Amazing how I managed to read your explanation and then internally
translate it into meaning something rather different.
Hopefully my code will have helped the OP out at any rate... I seem to be
having a bad week for offering help :)
TJG
Sorry for the delay in checking this out. I was out of the office
yesterday. Your code almost worked for reading the key, but I get a
tuple back:
('m\x00l\x00d\x00\x00\x00', 3)
So I had to change your last line to: print repr (res[0].decode (utf16))
I'll try setting the value later today since that's the main goal of
this little project. I suppose I'll need to encode it in utf16 too.
Thanks for the assist!
- Mike
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Re: [python-win32] Setting UserInitials in Office
On 28/04/2010 14:23, Mike Driscoll wrote: Sorry for the delay in checking this out. I was out of the office yesterday. Your code almost worked for reading the key, but I get a tuple back: [goes back to check what he wrote...] That's why my code does this (note the nearly-invisible underscore before the equals), discarding the datatype value which is the second item of the tuple returned: username, _ = _winreg.QueryValueEx (k, UserName) TJG ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Setting UserInitials in Office
On 26/04/2010 23:56, Tim Roberts wrote: Mike Driscoll wrote: I am looking for a way to set the UserInitials and Username in Microsoft Office applications. The reason is that we have had some users who have managed to put their initials into some Office programs when a different user was logged in and this has made it difficult to tell who has what open. From what I've read so far, the information is encoded in the Registry here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo I tried to use the base64 module to decode it, but I must be doing something wrong. Does anyone know of a good way to get and set this information? I am dealing with users on Windows XP and Python 2.4 ??? The strings in there are not encoded in any way. They are plaintext Unicode strings. They happen to be identified as REG_BINARY, but that's just a silly accident. On my (WinXP SP3, Office 2003) machine, they look to be utf16-encoded strings (null-terminated): code import _winreg k = _winreg.OpenKey ( _winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, rSoftware\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo ) username, _ = _winreg.QueryValueEx (k, UserName) print repr (username) # 'g\x00o\x00l\x00d\x00e\x00n\x00t\x00\x00\x00' print repr (username.decode (utf16)) # u'goldent\x00' /code TJG ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Setting UserInitials in Office
Tim Golden wrote: On 26/04/2010 23:56, Tim Roberts wrote: Mike Driscoll wrote: ... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo I tried to use the base64 module to decode it, but I must be doing something wrong. Does anyone know of a good way to get and set this information? I am dealing with users on Windows XP and Python 2.4 ??? The strings in there are not encoded in any way. They are plaintext Unicode strings. They happen to be identified as REG_BINARY, but that's just a silly accident. On my (WinXP SP3, Office 2003) machine, they look to be utf16-encoded strings (null-terminated): Exactly. They are really just REG_SZ, although they set the type as REG_BINARY for their own inscrutable reasons. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza Boekelheide, Inc. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Setting UserInitials in Office
Mike Driscoll wrote: I am looking for a way to set the UserInitials and Username in Microsoft Office applications. The reason is that we have had some users who have managed to put their initials into some Office programs when a different user was logged in and this has made it difficult to tell who has what open. From what I've read so far, the information is encoded in the Registry here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo I tried to use the base64 module to decode it, but I must be doing something wrong. Does anyone know of a good way to get and set this information? I am dealing with users on Windows XP and Python 2.4 ??? The strings in there are not encoded in any way. They are plaintext Unicode strings. They happen to be identified as REG_BINARY, but that's just a silly accident. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza Boekelheide, Inc. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
