On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > That really sucks. I was hoping Python had some way of doing that. All that > it needs to do is display a little box at one of the corners of the screen. > I thought someone would have implemented something by now. Thank you anyway.
Despite the best efforts of a pretty talented core dev team, Python is not yet capable of magic :) If you browse the python-dev archives, you'll see how much of a nightmare cross-platform compatibility can be (eg the recent discussion on cloexec and passing file descriptors to subprocesses); often, what you might think (from a user's point of view) is fairly trivial will turn out to be quite tricky. That said, though, a lot of GUI toolkits will have a means for you to highlight a window. In GTK, it's called "present" (as in, "Lord User, may I present Sir Window and Mrs Window?"). There may be window managers that don't support the feature (and there are certainly those that let the user disable it, which you should respect), but AFAIK all of them should at least accept the command. http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gtkwindow.html#method-gtkwindow--present So your best bet may be to simply create yourself a small window, then present it. On Windows XP, I think that'll flash the window in the task bar, which is usually enough highlight. On my Debian Wheezy with Xfce, it brings the window to the top of the Z-order, and optionally moves it to the current workspace (user's option, NOT program's). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
