[issue14859] Patch to make IDLE window rise to top in OS X on launch

2012-05-19 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: This is really a duplicate of Issue11571 which gives an easier way to do this directly using Tk calls. I'll see about getting that applied. -- nosy: +ned.deily resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> T

[issue14859] Patch to make IDLE window rise to top in OS X on launch

2012-05-19 Thread Marc Abramowitz
Marc Abramowitz added the comment: I created the patch against the 2.7 branch of hg, but I just tried it with both the 3.2 branch of hg and an installed version of 3.2 and it worked great. [last: 0] marca@scml-marca:~/dev/hg-repos/cpython$ pushd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3

[issue14859] Patch to make IDLE window rise to top in OS X on launch

2012-05-19 Thread Marc Abramowitz
New submission from Marc Abramowitz : On OS X 10.6.8, when I execute "idle", I see nothing in the Terminal and the IDLE GUI launches but is not visible until I Command-Tab to the "Python" application. I stumbled upon a solution to this problem using OS X's built-in /usr/bin/osascript utility.