> me in the past 2 days or so), I need to change the focus from the > current window to another window (from Windows Media Player to Audacity > so that the simulated keypress will have an effect).
There are a couple of options and its a wee while since I did any deep windows hacking. But I think the functions you need are called something like GetActiveWindow(title), and SetActiveWindow(handle). Theres also SetForegroundWindow... One of the wacky things about Windows is that there are usually about 3 ways to do anything and only one of them actually works the way you expect so you have to experiment a lot! ISTR You can also GetDesktopWindow() and front that get all the child windows which includes most of the running apps. ie You can get the window handle(aka identifier) using the title in the title bar, and then you make it the active window using the handle. However I believe the Windows PostMessage will actually work from the handle directly. But you will need to check the docs, thisis all from very olfd memories! The XP API may even be very different to the Win95 that I used to work on... Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
