Creating an Active Desktop Window

[rodmc]

Hi,

Does anyone know how I can create an Active Desktop window from within
a Python script? It would also be good to know how to refresh that
window and nothing else.

At present I have an application which writes to a file which is read
by the Active Desktop (embeded IE), then a refresh command is issued
which refreshes the whole screen. This is a bit clumsy and also the
user needs to manually set up the Active Desktop component.

I have been looking around for some solutions to this and as of today
my book on PyWin32 has still not arrived.

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

Best,

rod

[Roger Upole]

Re: Creating an Active Desktop Window

rodmc wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how I can create an Active Desktop window from within
> a Python script? It would also be good to know how to refresh that
> window and nothing else.
>
> At present I have an application which writes to a file which is read
> by the Active Desktop (embeded IE), then a refresh command is issued
> which refreshes the whole screen. This is a bit clumsy and also the
> user needs to manually set up the Active Desktop component.
>
> I have been looking around for some solutions to this and as of today
> my book on PyWin32 has still not arrived.
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>
> Best,
>
> rod[/color]

The ActiveDesktop interfaces aren't in Pywin32 yet, but
they should be in the next release, as part of the win32com.shell
package.

Roger




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