Re: [Pythoncard-users] PythonCard - Using wxSTAY_ON_TOP

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Thanks Alex.=20

That might be worth a try. I want my app to stay on top because I need to=
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copy stuff off of web pages and paste it into my app and it's annoying to=
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always have to click back to it. It would probably be smarter to integrate=
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my app into Firefox as an extension but then I'd have to learn a whole new=
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set of skills!

-Greg


On 8/29/05, Alex Tweedly <al...@tw...> wrote:
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> Gregory Pi=F1ero wrote:
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> > Do you know of any way to keep it in front of all other applications?
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> Yes - but I think it's such a spectacularly bad idea to write such an
> application, I'm tempted not to tell you :-) :-)
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> OK - what I tried was to create timer (I just fired it once per second),
> and had it do this
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> > def on_TextField1_timer(self, event):
> > self.childWindow.Raise()
> > self.Raise()
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> self.Raise() will raise the main window to the top (i.e. over other
> apps), but not over any dialog window invoked from the main window (the
> dialog window will also come up to above other apps)
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> Just to try if it could be done, this test also raises a child window -
> nasty flicker if they overlap and I suspect some tricky cases possible
> with interaction between the main window, any dialog and the child 0 but
> otherwise works.
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> I still say you shouldn't do it :-)
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