#30 Need documentation separate from kit

[Gary Feldman]

I've found a number of pointers to this package, but
nothing - not even an FAQ entry - giving a detailed
list of the current contents or installation
requirements/instructions.

The closest I've found is the page at
http://www.python.org/windows/win32. But that isn't
very clear or consistent, and just confuses things
more. I'd like to see a list that is a bit more
detailed (at least to the level of "base services,
common controls, etc." - as listed in the MSDN docs),
without inconsistencies (are memory mapped files part
of the API or aren't they).

I'd also like basic installation instructions: Which
versions of Python are supported, does the installation
give me a choice of which components to install, what
changes it makes to the registry, how to uninstall,
etc. The fact that the install is an .exe and not an
.msi or setup.exe opens some questions that need to be
addressed, even if it's just to say that the .exe is a
standard windows installation kit.

Gary

[Carl Karsten]

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+1

I am looking to implement "broadcast a WM_SETTINGCHANGE message to all windows SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST, ..." http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q104011

after lots of googleing, someone else found http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.5/pywin32/win32api__SendMessage_meth.html

Which is close, but I am guessing not what I need. I would think the docs should be here.

(don't answer my SendMessageTimeout() thing here, I'll start a new thread for that.)