Re: How to edit registry on pocketpc to change how IE displays python files.

Fuzzyman wrote:

> Thomas Heller wrote:
>
>>Fuzzyman <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Stewart Midwinter wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>>>David, there should be a script that edits the registry for you, and
>>>>it comes with a shortcut to help run it.  Which version of PythonCE
>>>>did you install?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>It didn't work for me. The one supplied seem to need running on the PC
>>>(using cereg.exe)  not the PocketPC - and it defines various *extra*
>>>entries as well. It didn't work for me yet anyway.
>>>
>>>I haven't yet taken the manual steps described to get it working. I was
>>>re-installing over a previous install.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Here is the script that I used (maybe it is from Luke):
>>
>>#
>>#	Setup the registry to allow us to double click on python scripts
>>#
>>from _winreg import *
>>
>>print "Setting up registry to allow\ndouble clicking of Python files to work"
>>
>>#
>>#	Create the registry entries for ".py" and ".pyc" extensions
>>#
>>for Name in (".py", ".pyc"):
>>    Key = CreateKey(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, Name)
>>    SetValue(Key, None, REG_SZ, "Python.File")
>>    CloseKey(Key)
>>
>>#
>>#	Create HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Python.File\Shell\Open\Command = "\Program Files\Python\Python.exe" "%1"
>>#
>>Key = CreateKey(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, "Python.File")
>>for Name in ("Shell","Open","Command"):
>>  New_Key= CreateKey(Key, Name)
>>  CloseKey(Key)
>>  Key = New_Key
>>SetValue(Key, None, REG_SZ, "\"\\Program Files\\Python\\Python.exe\" \"%1\"")
>>CloseKey(Key)
>>
>>import time
>>time.sleep(5)
>>
>>I did run it with 'execfile(r"\My Documents\Scripts\setup-registry.py")'
>>on the pocket PC itself, from within Python.
>>
>>What I didn't achieve so far was to associate a useful icon with .py
>>files, maybe someone could post the registry entries for that?
>>
>>  
>>
> This associates '.py' with Python. There was a separate distribution
> of Tk/Tkinter posted to the group recently (or at least a URL).
>
> This was purportedly more recent than other versions available for
> download. This distribution had a Tcl script to transfer the files to
> the PocketPC, this script 'hung' on me, so I followed the manual
> instructions. As part of this it included a batch file (that needed
> editing appropriately) to setup the registry entries on the PocketPC
> so that Python can find the install of Tk.
>
> It uses ``cereg.exe`` run on the PC (AFAICT) to make the registry
> entries. It's possible of course that it ought to be run on the
> PocketPC - maybe I'll try that. (It certainly didn't work for me, but
> then it didn't report errors either, which you would expect if you try
> to run a PocketPC application on the desktop).
>

Hmm... for some reason I misread this post and thought we were talking
about Tk/Tkinter. Sorry about that.

Anyway, I still have a problem - but I can always manually add the
registry entries.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

> All the best,
>
>
> Fuzzyman
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
>
>
>
>>Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>
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