Python COM win32ui examples/tutorials?

[Markus Wankus]

Hi,

I have been wallowing in my own ignorance with Python, COM, and win32ui.  I 
know there are examples and tutorials on the Mr. Hammond's website, but is 
there a repository somewhere of more beginner-type samples, or just a whole 
whack of example code?  Most importantly, how would I build simple GUI 
components with only win32ui (like a toolbar, or popup menu)

I have gotten a Python COM server and client going no problem, but I am 
trying to do more advanced things, and I just don't know enough about COM 
to know how to do it.  Like, how would you go about building a toolbar with 
win32ui.  Is it even worth trying, or should I just go back to wxPython - 
which I know?

Also, can you attach to running applications, and create your own toolbars 
within those apps?  I am connecting to an app with COM, and sucessfully 
having it call Python functions from custom menu items (through it's 
internal API to add your own menu items), but I can't use it's internal API 
to add toolbars because it is expecting to talk to a .dll and get the 
bitmap resources from the connecting .dll.  I am sucessfully creating the 
toolbar, but the showing of the toolbar fails when it looks for the 
resources.  I can't seem to find how to access resources properly with 
win32ui.  I figured, maybe I could somehow attach to the running app, and 
make win32ui think that app was it's parent, and create toolbars etc. 
inside of it with the win32ui calls.  Maybe this is impossible.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

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Markus