Re: [Pythoncard-users] Focus on backgrounds

[Liam C. <cy...@gm...>]

Thanks very much for that Kevin, works like a charm.

Regards, 

Liam Clarke


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:47:04 -0800, Kevin Altis <al...@se...> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


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