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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">I just finished trying out the sample program
scribble in "Python
Programming in Win32". While I<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">carefully cut and pasted from my soft copy of
the book, I could not<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt;">create a new document. When I finally found
the source code download<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">URL hidden in the chm file, the zip file was
corrupted!</span></font></p>
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I've attached the 3 "scribble" files.<br>
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I'm not a GUI programmer so others will have to answer your questions.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">This program is more what I am looking for: <a
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href="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/ActivePython/1775844">http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/ActivePython/1775844</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Unfortunately it does not work. </span></font></p>
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Could you provide the code and the error message?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Apparently I don't have to use
ActiveStatePython (according to a poster in the nntp group). </span></font></p>
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That is true.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Where can I find
similar source code that works <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">that displays a simple window and lets me
call other exotic window<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">functions like LoadKeyboardLayout,
MapVirtualKeyEx, ToUnicodeEx. That<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">latter function produces Unicode strings and
since I don't know how to
display<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Cyrillic in a console mode app, I'm thinking
I'll create a window to<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">display it in. I'll need to know how to load
a font in python too ---<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">anyone got an example of that too?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Siegfried<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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