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Jakub Bláha
Jakub Bláha

Reputation: 1609

"Always on top" window in Kivy

Is there some possible way of setting kivy.Window to be always on the top of other windows. I mean something similar to tkinter.Tk().attributes('-topmost', True). I have tried to set Window.on_hide = Window.raise_window but with no success.

I need to do this really badly so please write any even complicated solution Any help will be highly appreciated.

EDIT:

I am on Windows 10, python 3.6.5

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3393

Answers (3)

Superjay
Superjay

Reputation: 467

This question had already answered years ago, but I want to recommend you to use just Python library.

And I strongly recommends you KivyOnTop. This is very simple and works well.

You can active AlwaysOnTop mode with register_topmost(Window, TITLE).

Upvotes: 2

Tshirtman
Tshirtman

Reputation: 5949

You can probably use the win32 python modules (win32api, win32gui, winxpgui…) to get a window handle (e.g: win32gui.FindWindow(None, NAME)) then set its properties to stick it on top, using win32gui.SetWindowPos should do the trick, here is the relevant documentation: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms633545(v=vs.85).aspx

Upvotes: 1

inclement
inclement

Reputation: 29450

Kivy doesn't have an API for this. It looks like SDL2, Kivy's main windowing backend, supports it only on X11, so if that's your platform you could add the functionality. There might be way to do it using a platform-specific method outside of Kivy itself, but I don't know about that.

Upvotes: 1

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