Explorer Shell extensions are here!

R.Marquez ny_r_marquez at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 10 09:01:29 EST 2003


jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) wrote in message news:<87brqiszbc.fsf at pobox.com>...
> ny_r_marquez at yahoo.com (R.Marquez) writes:

> You can do shell extension stuff quite easily with ctypes, too.
> There's a good O'Reilly book on the subject (based on VB, but that
> doesn't matter).  Use the CVS version, not the tarball, there's at
> least one important COM bug fixed there.
> 
> One tip: some common COM interfaces don't have type libraries, but
> it's easy to write your own interface specifications for ctypes, just
> by following the very readable output of the ctypes script (equivalent
> of gen_py in win32com) that usually does this job for you.

John,

I appreciate the tip.  I'll have to take a deeper look at ctypes as well.

-Ruben




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