Re: Installing python's pypiwin32

[Dennis Putnam <dap1 at bellsouth dot net>]

Hi Ray,

I kind of found the problem. The import should be:

from ctypes import *

Now I am getting a message box but the characters in it are garbage. I
was tried to send an image but apparently this list does not allow that.

Here is my trivial test program:

#!/usr/bin/python

from ctypes import *

user32=cdll.LoadLibrary('/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/User32.dll')
mbw=getattr(user32,"MessageBoxW")
mbw(0,'Hello world!!','Hello',2)

On 4/4/2016 8:32 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
> Hi Ray,
>
> Thanks. That is actually where I started but I was not aware I needed
> those first 2 assignments. I did not find any examples of MessageBoxW
> that included that detail. However, now I get a different error. I am
> guessing there is another import I'm missing:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./test.py", line 5, in <module>
>     user32=cdll.LoadLibrary('/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/User32.dll')
> NameError: name 'cdll' is not defined
>
> On 4/4/2016 7:05 AM, Ray Donnelly wrote:
>> Yes, you can use the ctypes module [1] for this sort of thing:
>>
>> import ctypes
>> user32=cdll.LoadLibrary('/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/User32.dll')
>> mbw=getattr(user32,"MessageBoxW")
>> mbw(0,"Hello World","Caption",2)
>>
>> .. but I think the ctypes module on Cygwin's Pythons should support
>> the windll stuff out of the box and it doesn't seem to, then you could
>> just do ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(...) instead.
>>
>> [1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html
>>
>> --
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ray.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Dennis Putnam <dap1@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>> On 4/4/2016 5:53 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>>> On 04/04/2016 11:28, Dennis Putnam wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to install pypiwin32  and have hit a stone wall. That module
>>>>> wants _winreg so I installed cygwinreg. However, I cannot find a way to
>>>>> tell pip to use cygwinreg rather than _winreg. Is there a way to alias
>>>>> or some way to get pip to use the right module? TIA.
>>>>>
>>>> I doubt the package is cygwin compatible
>>>>
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>>> If that is the case then is there another way to open message boxes
>>> without running Xwin?
>>>

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