Window procedure overwrite lead to crashes without error when too much instances are created Question: I’m making an App that uses SDL / Pygame for displaying graphics. I’ve overwritten the window procedure in case of resizing to trigger a function and makes the app run smoother (cf this answer). However I’ve noticed when reaching a …
Python Invalid arguments using ctypes when calling SetProcessInformation Question: I’m trying to set a process in Eco QOS mode (windows specific, allows power saving for a process, see here) with the SetProcessInformation windows API function. My final goal will be to enable the eco QOS for all the process I launch with subprocess.popen() function that …
How do you access the "remembered" location of a Windows network drive via Python? Question: I’m using the pywin32 Windows API library to pull information about network drives using the win32wnet.WNetGetConnection() function. When I perform this function on network drives Windows reports as "Unavailable" (Status), the function returns a win32wnet.error stating "The device is not …
Why does SendMessage not work for some applications Question: Background: I was trying to program an auto clicker to click in the background to an application (Roblox, not trying to do anything malicious). I was able to get the window and perform commands like closing it. However, when trying to send clicks to the window …
CreateProcess: space in a python command passed with -c Question: I am trying to port muon (a C99 implementation of meson) to Windows, and i have some problem with one of its unit tests. This unit test calls python3 with an array of C string, this array being: "-c" "print("some output")" Note that this array …
How to change the mouse movement speed with win32api (mouseeventf_move) Question: So I basically have a python script set up that moves the mouse in a game to specific x and y coordinates, my question now is how can I make it so the mouse is moving slower, yet still smooth from point a to …
Reading from a pipe and buffer contains only one byte after read when it should contain more Question: I am trying to read from a pipe. I successfully opened the pipe and wrote to it, but for some reason, I am having trouble reading from it. There are no errors, but the bytes_read object indicates …
API custom voice downloading via Python Question: Is there any way I can download an mp3 file using Python because as soon I get to this URL it automatically opens "file save dialog box" and I’m not able to download it using either the python requests module or PycURL programmatically? I’m getting this URL by …
Interrupt (NOT prevent from starting) screensaver Question: I am trying to programmatically interrupt the screensaver by moving the cursor like this: win32api.SetCursorPos((random.choice(range(100)),random.choice(range(100)))) And it fails with the message: pywintypes.error: (0, ‘SetCursorPos’, ‘No error message is available’) This error only occurs if the screensaver is actively running. The reason for this request is that the computer …
How to access thumbnail toolbar buttons? Question: I’m trying to make some controls with apps (for example Discord or any app that has thumbnail toolbar buttons). I’ve already tried to google, search or just look at the docs. Is there any possible way to do that in python? Screenshot of what I want to control: …
