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Add info about the console crashing with win32ui on Win9x.
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mhammond committed Aug 22, 2000
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<H1><IMG SRC="doc/pythonwin.gif" WIDTH=64 HEIGHT=64>Pythonwin Readme. </H1>
<H2>Introduction </H2>
<P><a href="#KnownProblems">There are a few known problems</a> (and probably
lots of unknown ones!) </P>
<P>Pythonwin is a Windows only IDE and GUI framework for Python.&nbsp; It has an
<a href="doc/debugger/index.html">integrated debugger</a>, and a rich Python
editing environment. </P>
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<LI>A Reference Manual of all available MFC functions etc. is released as a Windows Help file with the main Pythonwin release. </LI>
<LI>Check out the demos, and the source code to the Pythonwin environment.</LI></UL>

<H2>Known Problems</H2>
<H2><a name="KnownProblems">Known Problems</a></H2>

<UL>
<LI>Pythonwin will occasionally crash upon exiting under Windows 95. The crash is in "user.exe" (Windows 95 16 bit code) which makes debugging difficult. It does not happen on Windows NT, so I'm stumped on this one. If someone could even just narrow it down to exactly what code will cause the crash at exit I would really appreciate it. </LI>
<LI>Many of the menu items are always grey.&nbsp; This functionality is simply not yet implemented in
<LI>Some of the configuration options (eg, &quot;Docking Windows&quot;) do not
take affect until you restart Pythonwin. </LI>
<LI>Under Windows 9x, any attempt to use Pythonwin features from an MS-DOS
prompt seems to cause immediate death.&nbsp; This means that you can not use
the Pythonwin debugger for programs running under Python.exe on Windows
9x.&nbsp; You should still be able to use the debugger normally from inside
Pythonwin itself. </LI>
<LI>Pythonwin will occasionally crash upon exiting under Windows 9x. The crash is in
&quot;user.exe&quot; (old 16 bit code) which makes debugging difficult. It does not happen on Windows NT, so I'm stumped on this one. If someone could even just narrow it down to exactly what code will cause the crash at exit I would really appreciate it. </LI>
<LI>Some of the menu items are always grey.&nbsp; This functionality is simply not yet implemented in
Pythonwin. </LI>
</UL>

<H2><A NAME="RecentChanges">Recent Changes</A></H2>
<P>Fixed alot of the interactive window formatting problems.&nbsp; Pythonwin now
always prints output as it recieves it - this should stop Pythonwin from looking
always prints output as it receives it - this should stop Pythonwin from looking
like it has completely hung when infact it is just waiting for some code to
finish.</P>
<P>Support for Scintilla's indentation guides, that gives a nice indication of
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