Pythonwin Documentation Index.

This contains an index for all Pythonwin GUI functionality - ie, the "win32ui" module. For general information on other non-GUI modules, please see the general documentation index.

Introduction

Pythonwin is implemented as a 'wrapper' for the Microsoft Foundation Class library. With it, you can use MFC in an interactive, interpreted environment, or write full blown stand-alone applications tightly coupled with the Windows environment. Over 30 MFC objects are exposed, including Common Controls, Property Pages/Sheets, Toolbars, etc.

Pythonwin is really just a sample program for the MFC UI environment. This Python UI environment can be embedded in almost any other application - such as OLE clients/servers, Netscape plugins, as a Macro language etc.

Documentation

Inside the Pythonwin distribution, you will find a Help File (Pythonwin.hlp) which is a reference manual for all objects exposed in Pythonwin.

Below is a list of external Pythonwin specific documentation.

• Check out documentation on the Pythonwin GUI environment
• For a brief description of how to embed win32ui.pyd into your MFC application see the embedding win32ui documentation.
• There is some general documentation on the MFC Architecture and more specifically, document and view architecture.
• A Reference Manual of all available MFC functions etc. is released as a Windows Help file with the main Pythonwin release.

And if all else fails:

• For answers to common problems with this software, see the Pythonwin FAQ.