askopenfilename() (was: Re: non-blocking getkey?)

[Ulli Horlacher]

Ulli Horlacher <framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > One windows it might be possible to use the win32 api to enumerate the
> > > windows, find your console window and switch to it.
> > 
> > You can call GetConsoleWindow [1] and then SetForegroundWindow [2].
> (...)
> 
> great, this works! Thanks!

One of my Windows test users reports, that the file dialog window of
askopenfilename() starts behind the console window and has no focus.
On Linux (XFCE) I do not have this problem.

I start it with:

  Tk().withdraw()
  file = askopenfilename(title='select a file',initialdir=HOME)
  set_window_focus() # give focus back to console window

Can one force askopenfilename() to start in foreground with focus?

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