Re: [Pythoncard-users] Forcing a minimized PythonCard app to appear

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On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:05:28 -0700, Kevin Altis wrote:

>> One option I have is to use ctypes to create a Win32 alert dialog
>> (maybe...I'm in the process of investigating since so far my ctypes
>> experience has just been in calling my own DLLs), but I was wondering 
>> if there was any PythonCard way of getting windows to "jump" off the 
>> taskbar.
>
>I would think that just doing self.visible = True would be enough, but 
>you might also want to do call self.Raise(). However, it might be more 
>correct to use the methods in wx.TopLevelWindow such as Iconize that 
>allows you to restore the window. Also, you'll probably want to use 
>RequestUserAttention. See the wxWidgets documentation for details.

Thanks....self.visible = True seems to do the trick with the limited
amount of testing I've done this week.

However, I really must put some time aside to study the wxWidgets stuff
because I'm probably denying myself the change to do various weird and
wonderful things. At the moment I only know enough to be dangerous...

Neil