PythonWin

[tkpmep@hotmail.com]

I have a Python program that collects user input using

msg = "Enter the full path and name of the file to be processed: "
answer = raw_input(msg)

If I run it in IDLE, the question is splashed across the execution
window, and if it is long, simply wraps to the next line. Most
importantly, it is intelligible, because I see the entire message. I
enter my answer on the next line, and once again, I can see the entire
path and file name, even if it is longer than long.

However, if I run it in ActivePython's PythonWin, a small message box
pops up, with hardly any space to diplay msg and a smallish space into
which I can type my answer. How can I force PythonWin to get its input
from the execution window or to enlarge its message box sufficiently to
display the entire question?

Thomas Philips

[Colin J. Williams]

Re: PythonWin

tkpmep@hotmail. com wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a Python program that collects user input using
>
> msg = "Enter the full path and name of the file to be processed: "
> answer = raw_input(msg)
>
> If I run it in IDLE, the question is splashed across the execution
> window, and if it is long, simply wraps to the next line. Most
> importantly, it is intelligible, because I see the entire message. I
> enter my answer on the next line, and once again, I can see the entire
> path and file name, even if it is longer than long.
>
> However, if I run it in ActivePython's PythonWin, a small message box
> pops up, with hardly any space to diplay msg and a smallish space into
> which I can type my answer. How can I force PythonWin to get its input
> from the execution window or to enlarge its message box sufficiently to
> display the entire question?
>
> Thomas Philips
>[/color]
You might try out the PythonWin from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=78018

Build 203 is the current version, build 204 is expected.

Colin W.

[Neil Hodgson]

Re: PythonWin

Thomas Philips:
[color=blue]
> However, if I run it in ActivePython's PythonWin, a small message
> box pops up, with hardly any space to diplay msg and a smallish
> space into which I can type my answer. How can I force PythonWin
> to get its input from the execution window[/color]

You will have to implement the feature which looks to me like much
work which is why it wasn't done that way by default.
[color=blue]
> or to enlarge its message box sufficiently to display the entire
> question?[/color]

The dialog is included as a binary resource in a DLL, win32ui.pyd.
You could get the source code, change the dialog resource and recompile
PythonWin. Another approach would be to manipulate the dialog and
control sizes after creation in pythonwin/pywin/mfc/dialog.py
GetSimpleInput( ).

Neil

[Larry Bates]

Re: PythonWin

tkpmep@hotmail. com wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a Python program that collects user input using
>
> msg = "Enter the full path and name of the file to be processed: "
> answer = raw_input(msg)
>
> If I run it in IDLE, the question is splashed across the execution
> window, and if it is long, simply wraps to the next line. Most
> importantly, it is intelligible, because I see the entire message. I
> enter my answer on the next line, and once again, I can see the entire
> path and file name, even if it is longer than long.
>
> However, if I run it in ActivePython's PythonWin, a small message box
> pops up, with hardly any space to diplay msg and a smallish space into
> which I can type my answer. How can I force PythonWin to get its input
> from the execution window or to enlarge its message box sufficiently to
> display the entire question?
>
> Thomas Philips
>[/color]
Take a look at the following sample program. It will allow you to
browse to the file that you want to open.

import win32ui
import sys
f=win32ui.Creat eFileDialog(1, None, "*.txt", 0, 'Text Files|||')
x=f.SetOFNIniti alDir("C:\\")
f.SetOFNTitle(" Open Text File")
result=f.DoModa l()
if result == win32con.IDCANC EL: sys.exit()
print "path selected=", f.GetPathName()
print "Filename selected=", f.GetFileName()


Hope it helps.

-Larry Bates