[Tutor] Pythoncom Tutorial

[Hansen, Mike]

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> 
> Hi!
> 
>     I noticed that when wanting to learn Pythoncom there is 
> no real good
> accessible tutorial for it.
>     Does anyone know where a good structured tutorial exists 
> for the Com
> utilities so I can write my own screen reader program?
> 
>     When trying to understand all the needed variables and 
> such for the
> windows commands and variables it gets confusing. I want to 
> learn how to get
> the objects and its methods so I can use a python program to read and
> verbalize the objects as you focus on them and such. The only 
> explanations I
> found either have the descriptions scattered and no examples 
> or structure on
> how to use any of the com stuff.
> 
>     How to use the Makepy and when not to use it. How to get 
> the objects and
> its list of methods to be able to work with it for screen 
> reading purposes.
> 
>     Thanks in advance.
> 
>         Bruce
> 

Python Programming on Win32 might help. There's also a couple of
articles on OnLamp.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926219/index.html

Mike