Re: [Pythoncard-users] Re: PythonCard - Using wxSTAY_ON_TOP

[Roger E. <ro...@er...>]

Gregory Piñero wrote:
> I am getting this error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\PythonCard\widget.py", line 402, 
> in _dispa
> tch
>     handler(background, aWxEvent)
>   File "C:\Documents and Settings\Gregory\My Documents\Get New Great 
> Job\JobAppl
> ierMarkII\job_applier_markII.py", line 271, in on_Start_timer
>     win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(self.myHwnd)
> pywintypes.error: (0, 'SetForegroundWindow', 'No error message is 
> available')
> 
> Though it does seem to be putting my window above some windows but not 
> others.  So maybe it's partly working?
> 
> -Greg
> 
> 
> 
> Here's the actual code I'm using if you're curious:
> 
> def _MyCallback( hwnd, extra ):
>     extra.append(hwnd)
> 
> def find_my_hwnd(title):
>     windows = []
>     win32gui.EnumWindows(_MyCallback, windows)   
>     j = 0
>     winDict = {}
>     for i in windows:
>         if win32gui.IsWindowVisible(i):
>             if title in win32gui.GetWindowText(i):
>                 return i
>     return None
> 
> Then the pythonCard initialize routine calls:
> self.myHwnd=find_my_hwnd(self.title)
> 
> Then I have a timer function going like this:
> def on_Start_timer(self, event):
>     if self.menuBar.getChecked('menuOptionsStayOnTop'):
>         win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(self.myHwnd)
> 
What are the results of using win32gui.BringWindowToTop(self.myHwnd)?
Regards,
Roger