Re: [Pythoncard-users] Chat

On 04/04/2007 23:21, BBands wrote:
> 
> If the ap is minimized or under another window when a message comes in
> I'd like to restore it or pop it to the fore to get the receiver's
> attention. How can I do this? For convenience I've attached chat.py
> below.

Kevin suggested the following to me...yikes, 2 years ago...when I was 
enquiring about getting a minimized app to re-appear:

 > >I would think that just doing self.visible = True would be enough, but
 > >you might also want to do call self.Raise(). However, it might be more
 > >correct to use the methods in wx.TopLevelWindow such as Iconize that
 > >allows you to restore the window. Also, you'll probably want to use
 > >RequestUserAttention. See the wxWidgets documentation for details.

self.visible = True seemed to do the trick from the taskbar, however if 
it's behind another window I'm not so sure. You could minimize to the 
taskbar and then raise it, I suppose.

*If* I had my wxWidgets documentation around I'd check...sorry.

-- 
Neil