wierd win32all gui problem (w/56lines of code)

[Thomas Heller]

"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson at bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:XLRB7.225335$bY5.977767 at news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Jeffrey Drake:
> > Using ActivePython 2.1 and win32all I have written a simple app that
> creates
> > a window and exits when closed. However the python interpreter is still
> > running. It hangs a command prompt under win2k until I physically kill the
> > python process. I would appreciate any help possible.
>
>    The WndProc isn't called at all. Add some prints or message boxes in the
> code and you'll see the WndProc is ignored.
>
>    Neil
>
IIRC you have to pass the return value of the RegisterClass() call (which
is an atom) to the CreateWindowEx() function as the second parameter (lpClassName).

Thomas