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Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:02:19 +0200
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On 07/06/2011 03:30 AM, Dustin Cheung wrote:
> I am looking into Tkinter. But i am not sure if it will actually work.
> This maybe a crazy idea but i was wondering if i can put a web browser
> in the frame. I have tried to use Tkinter to resize and place the
> windows to certain areas of the screen but that's not working or the way
> im approaching this problem is completely wrong. I want to make a
> program that will have websites displayed in specific areas of the
> screen. I was planning on using the program on the big screen. So is it
> possible to put the web browser inside the frame in Tkinter?

What you could do, in effect, is write your own web browser, using an
existing rendering engine. I do not know which rendering engines are how
easily used in Tkinter code (possibly none of them).

This isn't a job for (traditional, cross-platform) Python. It *may* be
possible with pyWin32. It may be easier with the Windows Script Host
(which apparently can support Python). I personally would use
browser-side JavaScript; it's certainly possible to open a popup of a
specific size in JS, not sure about specific position on-screen. Maybe
you have to write an extension for Firefox or Chrome.

> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com
> <mailto:clp2@rebertia.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Dustin Cheung <dustin299@gmail.com
>     <mailto:dustin299@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Hey guys,
>     > I am new to python. I want to make a shortcut that opens my websites
>     > and re-sizes them to  display on different areas on the screen. I
>     looked
>     > around but i had no luck. Is that possible with python? if so can
>     someone
>     > point to to the right direction? Here is what I came up with so far..
> 
>     The window positioning+resizing bit will likely require using
>     platform-specific APIs. Since you appear to be on Windows, the
>     relevant library would be pywin32 (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywin32
>     ). You would use it to invoke some COM API that does window
>     positioning+resizing. I am unable to give more details as I'm on a
>     Mac.
> 
>     Sidenote: Have you tried Firefox's "Bookmark All Tabs" feature?
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dustin Cheung
> 
>