On Jun 25, 1:23 pm, "massimo s." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if 1)there is a Python way to tell under which > terminal process a Python command-line application is running 2)there > is a Python way to tell the OS to give focus to another window. > > Solutions for Windows, Linux and OS X are welcome, even if OS-specific > (of course general solutions are better, but I can kludge & check the > platform). > > Thanks, > M.
On Windows, you can use the pywin32 modules to assist you. There's a sub-module in them called win32gui that has a SetForegroundWindow method. I usually use win32gui.EnumWindows() to loop through all the open processes and then use both win32gui.ShowWindow() and win32gui.SetForegroundWindow() to make the window I want appear. I'm guessing that each OS has their own methods for this as you would almost certainly have to use some kind of low-level calls to get handles on processes you didn't create. Thus, the likelihood that there are cross-platform methods is pretty low. ------------------- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org Python Extension Building Network: http://www.pythonlibrary.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
