Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python.': 0.02; 'python,': 0.02; 'subject:Windows': 0.02; 'subject:not': 0.03; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'url:msdn': 0.07; 'function:': 0.09; 'subject:Why': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'windows': 0.15; 'golden': 0.16; 'tjg': 0.16; 'underlying': 0.16; 'url:85)': 0.16; 'url:windows': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'seems': 0.21; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'dll': 0.24; 'first,': 0.26; 'second': 0.26; 'pass': 0.26; 'values': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'to:2**1': 0.27; 'tim': 0.29; 'related': 0.29; 'ctypes': 0.31; 'there,': 0.34; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'thanks': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'url:microsoft': 0.37; 'message-id:@gmail.com': 0.38; 'url:library': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'issue': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'url:en-us': 0.68; 'activated': 0.84; 'handing': 0.84; 'zhang': 0.84; 'subject:+': 0.91; 'to:addr:mail': 0.91; 'reply,': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=580rtG82ZTqYn4gTJVbk/x584jN9+8/1ATxKC3tsdP4=; b=rEh2jU4GkLMyhVZyEx2PiKyWqLKH5oA6Hpw+p4qd1dC0iMqHKMOYByZuPywlonxFF4 ozH7je5r1CIHYUMVnLVJLBwZiCQj6pbtfFxlHcD6XTCkopvmck7IjYv2tMSAbjXtNsTd 2ljKhpeNNp8BUQYlkCXDEkznFv4Ry6U926mhyn8Bj2nGfxe9kHP3wZnyv+XXdpVNZmnS EpZyJnDvPREavDKhemAAYUGl0fLiCQShhIqQfmuwYUD7UwPWTY0An5zebdEbHZUy80ir qHYBASJ6IR/xJYxjvV8AYrv3VBO/salVvaQBoe8oJlpOf8iLRXntfe3klANDd5uIXNc3 j5QA== X-Received: by 10.68.235.72 with SMTP id uk8mr38415610pbc.93.1387430102673; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:15:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:13:37 +0800 From: asmwarrior User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Golden , python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Windows+Python: Why is the first opened window not shown active? References: <52B14248.2010303@gmail.com> <52B16566.6050302@timgolden.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <52B16566.6050302@timgolden.me.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1387430611 news.xs4all.nl 2912 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:55473 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:62372 On 2013-12-18 17:05, Tim Golden wrote: > This isn't related to Python specifically: ctypes is just handing the > values you pass straight on to the underlying DLL (here: user32.dll). > > If you check the MSDN page for the MessageBox function: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms645505(v=vs.85).aspx > > you can see there's a MB_SETFOREGROUND flag with value 0x00010000L which > seems to do what you want. > > Why the Message box is activated the second time when it isn't the > first, I have no idea. But it's Windows which is deciding what to do > there, not Python. > > TJG Thanks Tim for the reply, indeed this is not an issue in Python, it is related to Windows OS. Yuanhui Zhang