full screen graphics

[myheartinamerica]

Hello,

I need to run a particular graphics application over and over again
with a different command line to get benchmarks on the applications
performance (frame rates and similar data). I am running the following
within a while loop that parses out a different command line from a
configuration file.

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def runCommand(command):
    """runCommand(command)

    Parameters:
        command -- the full string of the command to execute

    """
    print command
    try:
        childProcess = subprocess.Popen(command)

        done = False
        while not done:
            returnCode = childProcess.poll()
            if (returnCode != None):
                done = True
            else:
                # sleep for 10 seconds before checking again
                time.sleep(10)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print 'KeyboardInterrupt received. Trying to kill Wolf2.exe'
        print '>TASKKILL /F /T /PID ', childProcess.pid
        killCommand = ''.join(('TASKKILL /F /T /PID ',
str(childProcess.pid)))
        killSubProcess = subprocess.Popen(killCommand)
        killSubProcess.wait()
        sys.exit(0)
    except OSError, (errno, strerror):
        print 'OS Error (%s):  %s' % (errno, strerror)
        print 'Above error occurred while executing the following:'
        print command
    except WindowsError, (errno, strerror):
        print 'MS Windows Error (%s):  %s' % (errno, strerror)
        print 'Above error occurred while executing the following:'
        print command
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The problem lies in that the second time the application is run, it
doesn't grab focus and go full screen, but sits paused. It will not
continue running until I click on the minimized application in the
taskbar. Is there any way to force it to grab focus?

I am running on Win32 with Python 2.5.1.

Your help in this matter is greatly appreciated,
Mick Charles Beaver