AppBars in Win32 -- SUCCESS

[Thomas Heller]

"Keith Farmer" <kfarmer at thuban.org> wrote in message news:RPpL7.916$1W5.155013214 at newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> After beating my head against various things, I have successfully created an
> AppBar under Win32.  What's an AppBar, you ask?
>
> An AppBar is a window docked at the edge of the screen, such that Windows
> knows about it, and adjusts the desktop boundaries accordingly.  The taskbar
> is one such example.
>
> Currently, I've managed to get it to dock and undock on various sides of the
> screen.  I haven't done anything fancy, like dragging it to dock/undock, nor
> has the window been more complex than a blank frame under wxPython.  The
> extension I wrote interfaces to the SHAppBarMessage function, and uses part
> of the win32 extensions to determine screen size.  I've borrowed some
> constants from an attempt by Bill Bell to perform the same task.  If I'm
> correct, this extension should work with both PythonWin and wxPython.
>
> I'll next be trying to put widgets in the frame.
>
Sounds interesting. Will you publish the code?

Thomas