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[Pythoncard-users] Re: PythonCard - Using wxSTAY_ON_TOP

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

Hi Greg,
since you're apparently running on windows, maybe this may be of help:
import win32gui, win32ui


def _MyCallback( hwnd, extra ):
     extra.append(hwnd)

windows = []
win32gui.EnumWindows(_MyCallback, windows)

j = 0
winDict = {}
for i in windows:
     if win32gui.IsWindowVisible(i):
         winDict[j] = i
         j += 1

win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(winDict[1]) # found this out by inspection
                                          # the key of the window on top
try:
     fgwindow = win32ui.GetForegroundWindow()
     print fgwindow.GetWindowText()
except:
     print "No window found on the ForeGround?!"

I'm not very happy with this algorithm, but given my little knowledge of 
MS Windows and the very few times the exception is raised, it suffices 
in my case.

Regards, Roger

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

[<gre...@gm...>]

I am getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\PythonCard\widget.py", line 402, in=20
_dispa
tch
handler(background, aWxEvent)
File "C:\Documents and Settings\Gregory\My Documents\Get New Great=20
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=20
available')

Though it does seem to be putting my window above some windows but not=20
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 =3D []
win32gui.EnumWindows(_MyCallback, windows)=20
j =3D 0
winDict =3D {}
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=3Dfind_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)

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

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

[<gre...@gm...>]

>=20
>=20
> What are the results of using win32gui.BringWindowToTop(self.myHwnd)?
> Regards,
> Roger
>=20

I get no errors from using that, but it doesn't bring it to the top against=
=20
any other windows. The other method did work for the windows console and=20
outlook, but not for anything else.

-Greg