How to use Pythonwin's ability to access windows dll's???

Joel Lucsy jjlucsy at concentric.net
Sat Jan 15 22:04:59 EST 2000


I have to disagree. I wrote a program that interfaces with another using an
existing dll library that worked wonderfully. Of course I ran into some
problems with different versions of calldll.pyd,npstruct.py, and
npstruct.pyd.

"Gordon McMillan" <gmcm at hypernet.com> wrote in message
news:1264133143-1099206 at hypernet.com...
> Sam Schulenburg writes:
> > In article <1264144125-438654 at hypernet.com>,
> >   gmcm at hypernet.com wrote:
> > > Sam Schulenburg writes:
> > >
> > > > I can access windows dll's using Sam Rushing's calldll.pyd and
> > windll.py. My
> > > > question is are thes features built into Pythonwin?
> > >
> > > Nope. Everything in the Win32 extensions is wrapped (much
> > > of it via SWIG).  Sam's stuff is regarded as dangerous,
> > > because it's too easy to crash Python.
>
> > Seriously what is the purpose of the LoadLibrary function if not to
> > access Dll's>
>
> You can load & use resources from a dll (for dialogs, views
> etc). Not much use, otherwise.
>
>
> - Gordon
>





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