Windows 7: how to bring a window to the front no matter what other window has focus?

Question

I\'m implementing a task-bar replacement, dock-like application-switcher style program. It\'s doing some unique stuff with OpenGL, and with keyboard shortcuts, so the way it

Answer 1

I don't like these suggestions of using win32gui because you can't easily install that via pip. So here's my solution:

First, install pywinauto via pip. If you're on Python 2.7.9 or a newer version on the 2 branch, or Python 3.4.0 or a newer version from the 3 branch, pip is already installed. For everyone else, update Python to get it (or you can manually download and install it by running this script, if you must run an older version of Python.)

Just run this from the command line (not from within Python):

pip install pywinauto

Next, import what you need from pywinauto:

from pywinauto.findwindows    import find_window
from pywinauto.win32functions import SetForegroundWindow

Finally, it's just one actual line:

SetForegroundWindow(find_window(title='taskeng.exe'))