You are subject to DPI virtualization. Your application has not declared itself aware of high DPI and you have a font scaling of 125%. If you want to avoid DPI virtualization either add the high DPI aware option to the application manifest or call either SetProcessDPIAware or SetProcessDPIAwareness.
To be notified of new print jobs, you can use FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification, FindNextPrinterChangeNotification, and a wait function from kernel32 such as WaitForSingleObject. Here’s an example to set a filter that waits for a new print job on the local print server. There’s much more work to be done if you want the JOB_NOTIFY_FIELD_DOCUMENT value out of … Read more
Try to install pywin32 from here : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/ depends on you operation system and the python version that you are using. Normally 32bit version should works on both 32 and 64 bit OS. EDIT: moved to https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/releases
Solved If you are working in a miniconda on conda environment. You could just install pywin32 using conda instead of pip. This solved my problem: conda install pywin32
After lots of searching and trying various different methods, the following worked for me. import win32gui import win32ui from ctypes import windll import Image hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow(None, ‘Calculator’) # Change the line below depending on whether you want the whole window # or just the client area. #left, top, right, bot = win32gui.GetClientRect(hwnd) left, top, … Read more
from cStringIO import StringIO import win32clipboard from PIL import Image def send_to_clipboard(clip_type, data): win32clipboard.OpenClipboard() win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard() win32clipboard.SetClipboardData(clip_type, data) win32clipboard.CloseClipboard() filepath=”image.jpg” image = Image.open(filepath) output = StringIO() image.convert(“RGB”).save(output, “BMP”) data = output.getvalue()[14:] output.close() send_to_clipboard(win32clipboard.CF_DIB, data)
Using hints from WindowMover article and Nattee Niparnan’s blog post I managed to create this: import win32con import win32gui def isRealWindow(hWnd): ”’Return True iff given window is a real Windows application window.”’ if not win32gui.IsWindowVisible(hWnd): return False if win32gui.GetParent(hWnd) != 0: return False hasNoOwner = win32gui.GetWindow(hWnd, win32con.GW_OWNER) == 0 lExStyle = win32gui.GetWindowLong(hWnd, win32con.GWL_EXSTYLE) if (((lExStyle … Read more
First you have to install the wonderful pywin32 module. It provides COM support. You need to run the makepy utility. It is located at C:\…\Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client. On Vista, it must be ran with admin rights. This utility will show all available COM objects. You can find yours and it will generate a python wrapper for this … Read more
pywintypes is part of the Python for Windows extensions, otherwise known as pywin32. You’ll need to install that to get access to pywintypes. Note that as of this writing, pywin32‘s maintainer doesn’t upload files to PyPI, so you have to get an appropriate version of installer from http://pywin32.sf.net.
My first thoughts were listed below but if, as you state, you’re certain that GetWindowRect is returning incorrect values, see RESOLUTION further down. “What’s wrong with GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXBORDER) and GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYBORDER)? The method you’re using seems a very roundabout way of doing it and, if you can call GetWindowRect(), I’m pretty certain you can call GetSystemMetrics() as … Read more