Re: [Pythoncard-users] workaround for raising child windows in resourceEditor

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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bra...@om...">bra...@om...</a> wrote:
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 <tt>Kevin Altis wrote on 04/01/2005 11:11:20 AM: 
 
&gt; I've come up with a potential solution to raising 
&gt; child windows when the main window is selected in the 
&gt; resourceEditor. This is actually a problem for any 
&gt; PythonCard application with child windows, but seems 
&gt; to be more of annoyance in the resourceEditor as the 
&gt; Property Editor window is always being lost behind 
&gt; other application windows. 
&gt; 
&gt; You can just drop the following code into 
&gt; resourceEditor.py and see whether this gives the 
&gt; behavior you would expect. I would like to get some 
&gt; feedback before I check it into cvs. If you have 
&gt; overlapping windows, most likely because you're 
&gt; working on a small screen, this solution of forcing a 
&gt; Raise could be very annoying, so I would likely add a 
&gt; menu item under Options that would allow you to 
&gt; disable the Raise. 
&gt; 
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; def on_activate(self, event): 
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; if not hasattr(self, 'inActivate') or
not 
&gt; self.inActivate: 
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; self.inActivate = True 
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; for c in self.GetChildren(): 
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; c.Raise() 
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; self.Raise() 
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; self.inActivate = False 
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; #event.skip() 
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 <tt>Thanks, I will try this.</tt>
 
 
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&gt; On a related note, I never added lowercase aliases for 
&gt; Raise and Lower to the Background class because I 
&gt; wasn't sure if this would be legal since raise is a 
&gt; keyword and we need it for raising exceptions. If 
&gt; someone knows the correct syntax so that we can have a 
&gt; lowercase alias to Raise I'll add it to the class; 
&gt; perhaps I could just do a setattr or something?! 
&gt; 
&gt; raise = wx.Frame.Raise 
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 <tt>Are lowercase aliases used for a lot of other
names
in PythonCard or wx? 
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I tried plugging this into resourceEditor.py on my Windows install, it
didn't work. Quite likely that I screwed up somehow, but the focus
keeps reverting to the property editor on every attempt to select the
resource editor. I tried to be extra careful with indentation, but
still not working here. 
Bo 
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