tkinter and focus...

[Matthew Dixon Cowles]

On 26 May 2001 12:37:58 GMT, Uwe Schmitt <schmitt at num.uni-sb.de>
wrote:

>in addition to a main window i construc an "informatio-window" using
>Tkinter.Toplevel(). my question is: i'd like to manipulate this
>widnow in order to make it the "active"-window. focus_set() doesnt
>work.

Uwe,
You may find that sending the window focus_force() does what you want.

Assuming that your app is running under Unix, in order to guarantee
that a new window has the focus, you'll need the cooperation of a
possibly-uncooperative window manager. Sending focus_force works on my
laptop (Linux+GNOME) but not on my desktop machine (FreeBSD+wmx). It
seems that not all window managers are prepared to be told by user
programs how to sort out their windows in too much detail.

Regards,
Matt