[Tkinter] how to keep a window above all other OS windows?

[dmitrey]

Hi all,
how to keep a Tkinter window above all other OS windows (i.e.
including those ones from other programs)?

Thank you in advance,
Dmitrey

[dmitrey]

Re: how to keep a window above all other OS windows?

On Sep 23, 11:21 pm, dmitrey <dmitrey.kros.. .@scipy.orgwrot e:

Hi all,
how to keep a Tkinter window above all other OS windows (i.e.
including those ones from other programs)?
>
Thank you in advance,
Dmitrey

I have put [Tkinter] into topic of my message but somehow it has been
removed.
D.

[Aaron \Castironpi\ Brady]

Re: how to keep a window above all other OS windows?

On Sep 23, 3:34 pm, dmitrey <dmitrey.kros.. .@scipy.orgwrot e:

On Sep 23, 11:21 pm, dmitrey <dmitrey.kros.. .@scipy.orgwrot e:
>

Hi all,
how to keep a Tkinter window above all other OS windows (i.e.
including those ones from other programs)?

>

Thank you in advance,
Dmitrey

>
I have put [Tkinter] into topic of my message but somehow it has been
removed.
D.

If you can get the handle of the window from the Tk framework, use the
os call in 'ctypes'. Windows' call is ShowWindow( handle,
HWND_TOPMOST ) I think.

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Re: [Tkinter] how to keep a window above all other OS windows?

In message <dqWdneZ7QrR-DUTVnZ2dnUVZ_tX inZ2d@earthlink .com>, Dennis Lee
Bieber wrote:

{I miss the Amiga --
where one had the option to push a window to the back /without/ losing
focus... made it useful for reading one window while touch-typing data
into the "hidden" window}

This sort of thing should be configurable in many X11-based window managers.

[MRAB]

Re: how to keep a window above all other OS windows?

On Sep 26, 10:04 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.net com.comwrote:

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:52:59 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<l...@geek-central.gen.new _zealanddeclaim ed the following in
comp.lang.pytho n:
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This sort of thing should be configurable in many X11-based window managers.

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        Maybe... But I'm stuck with a MicroSloth world -- at least they
didn't decide 1 mouse button is all anyone would need <G>

There's some useful information at http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib....Wm-class.html.

>>from Tkinter import *
>>w = Tk()
>>w.attributes( '-topmost', True)

''

>>w.mainloop( )
>>>

The window stays on top.