Re: PIL + show() + Vista

Méta-MCI (MVP) wrote:
Hi, Tim!

You are right, for shimgvw.dll (on XP / 2000, or some Vista). But others Vista (ou users practice) had associate images with WindowsPhotoGallery.exe.

But shimgvw.dll already exist.

I found that this line:

command = 'start "%s" /wait %s\\System32\\rundll32.exe %s\\System32\\shimgvw.dll ImageView_Fullscreen %s && del /f "%s" ' % (title,os.environ['SYSTEMROOT'],os.environ['SYSTEMROOT'],file,file)

launch a "Photo Gallery" who respect the WAIT.

For me (and my users), it's a solution. Perhaps others PIL's users can read that with interest.

I'm glad you found a solution. I think my point was that
you can use the FindExecutable API to determine whatever
is associated and use that (special-casing the shimgvw DLL
to use RunDLL). Obviously, if that executable doesn't
honour the wait then you're stuck, so maybe using shimgvw
universally is the solution.

TJG
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