Re: Setting win32 console title from Python

2005-05-02 Thread Duncan Booth
runes wrote: > Hi Duncan, sorry, I was unprecise. I'm thinking of a script, called > t.py that can be used in the console like an ordinary command. Som if > I change directory from S:\scripts to d:\projects and execute the > script the title changes to "projects" etc. > > I have that function

Re: Setting win32 console title from Python

2005-04-28 Thread Bengt Richter
On 28 Apr 2005 12:42:34 -0700, "runes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Duncan, sorry, I was unprecise. I'm thinking of a script, called >t.py that can be used in the console like an ordinary command. Som if >I change directory from S:\scripts to d:\projects and execute the >script the title cha

Re: Setting win32 console title from Python

2005-04-28 Thread runes
Hi Duncan, sorry, I was unprecise. I'm thinking of a script, called t.py that can be used in the console like an ordinary command. Som if I change directory from S:\scripts to d:\projects and execute the script the title changes to "projects" etc. I have that functionality today with a combina

Re: Setting win32 console title from Python

2005-04-28 Thread Duncan Booth
runes wrote: > Hi Jay. It seems like my requirement is a light edition of your. I like > having many console windows open, and to make it easier to switch > between them, I like to name them. Todays solution is rather tedious > > - a batch file that calls a python script that isolates the direct

Re: Setting win32 console title from Python

2005-04-28 Thread jay graves
Cool. Let me know if you want a copy of p.py (in all of it's hard-coded glory). I can easily put it under Public Domain and you can copy whatever you want out of it. ... jay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Setting win32 console title from Python

2005-04-28 Thread runes
Hi Jay. It seems like my requirement is a light edition of your. I like having many console windows open, and to make it easier to switch between them, I like to name them. Todays solution is rather tedious - a batch file that calls a python script that isolates the directory name and stores it i

Re: Setting win32 console title from Python

2005-04-28 Thread runes
> Whenever you start an application from the command prompt the title is > modified by appending a dash and the name of the program you started. When > the application terminates the title is reset (to remove the name of the > running program). So any change to the title will only last until the ne

Re: Setting win32 console title from Python

2005-04-28 Thread jay graves
Hmm. >From an interactive interpreter this works for me. import os os.system('title Jay') but the title returns to its previous value when I Ctrl-Z out of the process. If I save this as a file and run it, it seems to work without spawning a new window but resets it the title after the program f

Re: Setting win32 console title from Python

2005-04-28 Thread Duncan Booth
runes wrote: > I'm trying to set the title of the console window (CMD.EXE) in Windows. > I want it set to the basename of the current directory and it should > stay after the script has finished. > > Any ideas? > I don't think you can do that. Whenever you start an application from the command p

Setting win32 console title from Python

2005-04-28 Thread runes
Hi, I'm trying to set the title of the console window (CMD.EXE) in Windows. I want it set to the basename of the current directory and it should stay after the script has finished. Now, the console title is easily set with the DOS-command 'title NewTitle'. But I'd like to do this from a Python scr