[PythonCE] Running Python program without getting Python CE window

[Luke Dunstan]

The normal .py association on Windows is done with a couple of registry 
values:

1. Create a key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.py
2. Set the default value of this key to: Python.File
3. Create a key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Python.File\shell\open\command
4. Set the default value to: "C:\Python24\python.exe" "%1" %*

Windows CE is the same but the command might be: "\Program 
Files\PythonCE\python.exe" "%1"

You could make .pyw work on WinCE by creating a key HKCR\.pyw and another 
like HKCR\Python.File.NoShell, with the appropriate command line. In fact I 
may do this in the next version of the PythonCE installer.

There are several ways to edit the registry. I've used two:
1. Total Commander, a free file manager for WinCE that includes a registry 
editor
2. Remote Registry Editor from MS eMbedded Visual C++

I've also used this command line console: 
http://www.symbolictools.de/public/pocketconsole/


Luke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffrey Barish" <jeff_barish at earthlink.net>
To: <pythonce at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:35 AM
Subject: [PythonCE] Running Python program without getting Python CE window


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffrey Barish" <jeff_barish at earthlink.net>
To: <pythonce at python.org>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: [PythonCE] Running Python program without getting Python CE window

> > Whenever I run a Python application, I get a window titled "Python CE"
that
> > seems to capture stdout. Is it called the console? I would like to run
my
> > application without getting that window. I had the impression that this
> > window would not appear if I ran the application using pythonw. To that
> > end,  I changed the first line of my application to
> >
> > #! /usr/bin/env pythonw
> >
> > (instead of /usr/bin/env/python). Changing this line has no effect in
> > either CE or XP. What is the correct procedure?
>
> As somebody else mentioned, that is a Unix-specific feature. In Windows XP
> you can rename the file to .pyw to run it automatically with pythonw.exe. 
> On
> Windows CE there is no standard way but this might help:
>
> python /nopcceshell program.py
>
> Luke

Forgive my continued ignorance.  Changing the extension works fine in XP to
suppress the console window, but I don't understand how to enter the command
you suggested in CE.  Did you find a console for CE that permits you to type
in commands?  Does CE come with one (that I have been unable to locate)?

I also posted a related question last week, but I never saw my message in 
the
digest (which happens frequently).  I am also wondering what the procedure 
is
for attaching an icon to my application so that I can run the application by
tapping the icon?  And, to be precise, what I would like is to run my Python
program in such a way that the console window does not appear.  Perhaps
tapping the icon would run the command that you suggested above.
-- 
Jeffrey Barish
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