[Pythonmac-SIG] What's this message mean?

[Ronald_Oussoren]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 08:15:14 -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote
> When I run a Tkinter app from the command line (in an xterm or from the
> Terminal app) the main window comes up okay, but it's not at the top 
> of the window stack.  When I click its title, the window does not 
> raise and this message is displayed in the terminal window:
> 
>     SetFrontProcess failed,-606
> 
> I have to pause the app (Ctl-Z) and kill it.

> 
> Any suggestions?

Use pythonw instead of python to start the script. 

Applications that use the WindowServer must be in a .app bundle, or must use an 
undocumented API. pythonw is a shell script that starts a pyton interpreter that is inside a .app 
bundle but is otherwise a normal interpreter.

Ronald