Re: [Pythoncard-users] Focus on backgrounds

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

On Mar 5, 2005, at 3:58 AM, Liam Clarke wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to call setFocus on the window when it opens?
>
> I have 3 windows -
>
> Main
>  |
>  ChildA
>   |
>   ChildB
>
> ChildA opens ChildB, assigns Main as the parent of ChildB and then
> closes itself. This is fine except Main is now in the foreground, and
> B behind it....
>
> I tried self.backgrounds['bgTemplate'].setFocus(), but that doesn't 
> work,
> I'm currently using
>
> def on_initialize(self, event):
>         self.components[self.components.keys()[0]].setFocus()
>
> in ChildB.
>
> This works, but it seems a bit hacky, and I get a flicker as Main
> moves to the front, and then B does, which is distracting.
>
> There's probably something very obvious I'm missing, there usually is,
> but any help would be appreciated. I used findfiles.py and all the
> returns for 'focus' related to findFocus and setFocus being called on
> widgets.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Liam Clarke
>

I think the method you're looking for is the wxPython one, Raise(), 
which brings a "top-level" window to the front. So something like this 
in your main code...

self.childB.Raise()

ka