undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

[Etayki]

Hi!

I'm trying to maximize a IE window. I have a handler and I'm trying to
call ShowWindow to maximize it:

ie = Dispatch('InternetExplorer.Application')
handler = ie.HWND
ie.Visible = 1
win32gui.ShowWindow(handler, SW_MAXIMIZE)

But then I get this error:
'SW_MAXIMIZE' is not defined

The function ShowWindow is defined (according to MSDN) as:

BOOL ShowWindow( HWND hWnd,
int nCmdShow
);

How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined?

 

[Etayki]

OK, so it it turns out, the window will maximize when SW_MAXIMIZE =3.
But where can I find some documentation for that?

 

[Richie Hindle]

[Etayki]

How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined?

It's in win32con. Like this:
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[Fredrik Lundh]

I'm trying to maximize a IE window. I have a handler and I'm trying to
call ShowWindow to maximize it:

ie = Dispatch('InternetExplorer.Application')
handler = ie.HWND
ie.Visible = 1
win32gui.ShowWindow(handler, SW_MAXIMIZE)

But then I get this error:
'SW_MAXIMIZE' is not defined

SW_MAXIMIZE is a C preprocessor constant (a define), which means it
only exists in a Windows-specific header file (winuser.h, in this case).

How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined?

by grepping through the Windows header files to see what the corresponding
value is, and using that value to set a Python variable in your script:

> grep SW_MAXIMIZE *.H

WINUSER.H:#define SW_MAXIMIZE 3

corresponds to

SW_MAXIMIZE = 3

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[Fredrik Lundh]

How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined?

by grepping through the Windows header files to see what the corresponding
value is, and using that value to set a Python variable in your script

oops. thought you were using ctypes, not the pythonwin extensions. see richie's
reply for pythonwin details.

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[Richie Hindle]

[Etayki]

OK, so it it turns out, the window will maximize when SW_MAXIMIZE =3.
But where can I find some documentation for that?

ShowWindow is a Win32 API call, so Googling within msdn.microsoft.com will
usually get you straight to the relevant documentation:

http://www.google.com/search?q=ShowWindow+site:msdn.microsoft.com

 

[Richie Hindle]

[Fredrik]

oops. thought you were using ctypes, not the pythonwin extensions.

Even when I'm using ctypes I use win32con for the constants, unless
there's some special reason why I need the code to be independent of
pywin32.