Anyone using Venster?

Donnal Walter donnal at donnal.net
Wed Jun 25 21:34:03 EDT 2003


Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Guyon Mor?e wrote:
> 
>>Recently I discovered the 'Venster' package at http://venster.sf.net/
>>
>>I really like the idea of using this instead of the pywin/mfc stuff. The
>>only problem is that there is almost no documentation and I can not find
>>anything on the web/newsgroup about it.
>>
>>So i was wondering if anyone's using this and likes to share some code.
> 
> 
> Venster is still pretty young and raw, as is the underlying ctypes
> package, though ctypes is maturing rapidly.
> 
> I'm experimenting with Venster at work, as I'm having to use ctypes to
> access a COM package which has very limited support for COM automation,
> and is thus not really usable from Mark Hammond's win32all package :-(.
> 
> As Venster is only a fairly thin wrapper about various Windows APIs (ATL &
> WTL in particular), I've been able to use the online docs at MSDN (in
> conjunction with the samples) to get by so far.
> 
> How much further I can get remains to be seen...

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Donnal Walter
Arkansas Children's Hospital







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