Re: GDI+ with ctypes

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:05:23 +0200, Thomas Heller <theller@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> Florian Schulze <florian.proff.schulze@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Is it possible to access GDI+ with ctypes and if that's the case, can
> > someone give me a hint how to do that?
>
> Although GDI+ is a C++ library, you can access it with ctypes. The
> platform SDK has a GdiPlusFlat.h file, which contains a lot of function
> definitions for C code.

A good hint.

> Then, there is also a gdiplus type library for gdiplus, which I found
> somewhere on the internet.  The readtlb tool, included with ctypes, can
> be run on this typelib to create a module containing all the enum and
> structure definitions you may need.  With the readtlb output piped into
> a gdiplus.py module, I was able to write this code, which prints the
> width and height of a jpg file:

With ctypes up to and including 0.9.1 readtlb says it can't handle 
multidimensional arrays, when I commented out that assert the file gets 
parsed, I will have to see how far I can get with that.

Your code snippet is also very helpful.

Thanks and Regards,
Florian Schulze



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