Pointers for solving windows GUI problem.

[Spencer Ernest Doidge]

If in the end you do have to use VC++, you might find as I have that it is
actually easier not to use MFC. Charles Petzold's book and Jeffrey
Richter's book opened the door into Win32 API for me. You don't have to go
near MFC in VC++, and you can still build resources using the GUI. So you
don't have to write code, for example, to create a fancy dialog box.

Like you, I am looking for a pure Python/WinGUI solution. AS I just
learned from this group, http://www.activestate.com has Visual Python, but
you have to have Visual Studio .NET for that. That means many $$$ :-(

Spencer Doidge
www.spencerdoidge.com

On 28 Feb 2002, Alan Kennedy wrote:

> Greetings all,
> 
> I'm posting this question in the hope that someone has already done
> this, or something similar, and can perhaps direct me some code or a
> tutorial that will shorten the path to a solution.
> 
> I have a Windows COM object which renders a series of images into a
> window. I can control the COM object using provided API methods. I
> don't have the source for the COM object.
> 
> I want to do screen grabs of the display of this window at various
> stages, so that I can dump them to files, in GIF, JPEG or PNG format.
> 
> What I'm looking for is perhaps some sample code that does this or
> something similar. Failing that, a pointer to a good MFC tutorial
> would be most helpful.
> 
> I am totally unfamiliar with MFC and Win32 GUI programming, although
> I've developed some X-Windows stuff in the distant past.
> 
> However, given the excellent tools available, namely Python and Mark
> Hammond's excellent Windows extensions, I have every faith that the
> job can be done without having to go near VC++ (which I can do, but
> really don't want to :-)
> 
> TIA for any pointers.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alan.
>