Using Python to add thumbnails to Explorer

[Roger Upole]

Not sure how ctypes works, but with Pywin32
Pythoncom24.dll is actually registered as the
shell extension dll, and it passes calls to methods
of a Python class you create that implements the
interface methods.

           Roger

"c d saunter" <christopher.saunter at durham.ac.uk> wrote in message news:dkabqu$osi$1 at heffalump.dur.ac.uk...
> John J. Lee (jjl at pobox.com) wrote:
>
> : "Roger Upole" <rupole at hotmail.com> writes:
>
> : Or, if not, then you can do it with module ctypes.
>
> : http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
>
> : There's an O'Reilly book called something like "win32 shell
> : programming" that covers this stuff.
>
> : John
>
> Roger & John - thanks for the info.  Unless I'm wrong (a distinct
> posibility) this isn't an option, as all though COM is used as the
> interface, it is used to talk to *in process* code loaded from a DLL - so
> Python can only be used if the interpreter is invoked from within a custom
> shell extension .dll, which is probably not the best idea for various
> reasons.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris 




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