undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

[Etayki]

Hi!

I'm trying to maximize a IE window. I have a handler and I'm trying to
call ShowWindow to maximize it:

ie = Dispatch('Inter netExplorer.App lication')
handler = ie.HWND
ie.Visible = 1
win32gui.ShowWi ndow(handler, SW_MAXIMIZE)

But then I get this error:
'SW_MAXIMIZE' is not defined

The function ShowWindow is defined (according to MSDN) as:

BOOL ShowWindow( HWND hWnd,
int nCmdShow
);

How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined?

[Etayki]

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

OK, so it it turns out, the window will maximize when SW_MAXIMIZE =3.
But where can I find some documentation for that?

Etayki wrote:

Hi!
>
I'm trying to maximize a IE window. I have a handler and I'm trying to
call ShowWindow to maximize it:
>
ie = Dispatch('Inter netExplorer.App lication')
handler = ie.HWND
ie.Visible = 1
win32gui.ShowWi ndow(handler, SW_MAXIMIZE)
>
But then I get this error:
'SW_MAXIMIZE' is not defined
>
The function ShowWindow is defined (according to MSDN) as:
>
BOOL ShowWindow( HWND hWnd,
int nCmdShow
);
>
How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined?

[Richie Hindle]

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function


[Etayki]

How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined?

It's in win32con. Like this:

>>from win32con import *
>>SW_MAXIMIZE

3

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Richie Hindle
richie@entrian. com

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

"Etayki" <etayluz@gmail. comwrote:

I'm trying to maximize a IE window. I have a handler and I'm trying to
call ShowWindow to maximize it:
>
ie = Dispatch('Inter netExplorer.App lication')
handler = ie.HWND
ie.Visible = 1
win32gui.ShowWi ndow(handler, SW_MAXIMIZE)
>
But then I get this error:
'SW_MAXIMIZE' is not defined

SW_MAXIMIZE is a C preprocessor constant (a define), which means it
only exists in a Windows-specific header file (winuser.h, in this case).

How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined?

by grepping through the Windows header files to see what the corresponding
value is, and using that value to set a Python variable in your script:

grep SW_MAXIMIZE *.H

WINUSER.H:#defi ne SW_MAXIMIZE 3

corresponds to

SW_MAXIMIZE = 3

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[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

>How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined?

>
by grepping through the Windows header files to see what the corresponding
value is, and using that value to set a Python variable in your script

oops. thought you were using ctypes, not the pythonwin extensions. see richie's
reply for pythonwin details.

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[Richie Hindle]

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function


[Etayki]

OK, so it it turns out, the window will maximize when SW_MAXIMIZE =3.
But where can I find some documentation for that?

ShowWindow is a Win32 API call, so Googling within msdn.microsoft. com will
usually get you straight to the relevant documentation:

http://www.google.com/search?q=ShowWindow+site%3Amsdn.microsoft.com

--
Richie Hindle
richie@entrian. com

[Richie Hindle]

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function


[Fredrik]

oops. thought you were using ctypes, not the pythonwin extensions.

Even when I'm using ctypes I use win32con for the constants, unless
there's some special reason why I need the code to be independent of
pywin32.

--
Richie Hindle
richie@entrian. com