These look like symptoms of sf bug #1017504
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1017504&group_id=78018&atid=551954
What version of Pywin32 are you running ?
There's a (semi) fix for this in the latest build.
hth
Roger
"Chris P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I've been having a problem with PythonWin that seemed to start
> completely spontaneously and I don't even know where to START to find
> the answer. The only thing I can think of that marks the point
> between "PythonWin works fine" and "PythonWin hardly every works fine"
> was that I changed the size of my Virtual Paging file, noticing that
> it was too small (I currently have a P4 with 1G of RAM). I tried
> returning it to its original (smaller) size, but it didn't fix the
> problems.
>
> The first time I noticed it, I was using PythonWin and then
> right-clicked on My Computer to use "Explore". Instead of the usual
> full listing (approx 10 items), I got a mini-listing of 4 items.
> Then, after clicking "Explore", I either don't get a new window at all
> OR I get a strange file explorer that won't let me look at files,
> won't let me copy files, etc. The "mini-lising" thing also happens if
> I click the "Start" button while PythonWin is open.
>
> Another problem is trying to open another program while PythonWin is
> running - generally, the program will not start, but I also don't get
> any kind of error popping up on the screen. My request is just
> ignored (although I sometimes get a "system beep".) If I already have
> other programs open and then open PythonWin, my menu bar might refuse
> to function. Is it significant that, when the menu bar IS working,
> the drop-down menu fades in quite slowly, instead of popping up
> immediately?
>
> At the end of this message, I've pasted a screen dump of a message I
> get when I try to open a file and I've got other apps open (note that
> I can have very few, non-memory intensive apps open and I still get
> it).
>
> Thanks for any help you can give,
>
> - Chris
>
> [SCREEN DUMP AFTER I TRY TO OPEN A .PY FILE]
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\mfc\docview.py",
> line 91, in CreateNewFrame
> wnd.LoadFrame(self.GetResourceID(), -1, None, context) # triggers
> OnCreateClient...
> win32ui: LoadFrame failed
>
> win32ui: CreateNewFrame() virtual handler (<bound method
> SyntEditTemplate.CreateNewFrame of
> <pywin.framework.editor.color.coloreditor.SyntEditTemplate instance at
> 0x01193F30>>) raised an exception
> TypeError: PyCTemplate::CreateNewFrame must return a PyCFrameWnd
> object.
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