Using win32api.GetTickCount() over the network

[Donovan Hide]

Hi Dave and Mark,

    thanks very much for your responses, you have inspired me to rethink my
design and answered my questions. The client-server model suggested by Dave
seems more powerful, but I am not convinced that I cannot do what I want
from a single program running on one machine. Thank you for the intro to
socket programming though!

    Have been playing around with the various win32 modules today and  I
think I have found a problem with the win32pdh module.

    Given the following snippet (re-used from this newsgroup!):

import win32pdh
import win32api

list = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None, None , 'Process' ,
win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD , 0 )

#print list[1]

spider = 'Spider' in list[1]
afterfx = 'AfterFX' in list [1]

if spider == 1:
    print "Spider Is Running"

if afterfx == 1:
 print "After Effects is running"

I get the desired answers, when run on Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4
machines, but run under XP I get:

File "GetProcesses.py", line 4, in ?
list = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None, None , 'Process' ,
win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD , 0 )
pywintypes.api_error: (-2147481646, 'EnumObjectItems for buffer size', 'No
error message is available')
>Exit code: 1

Any ideas? I have .Net Framework installed on the XP box.

Very grateful fo your time,
    Donovan Hide.