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 saw some great answers above, but needed extra functionality where window name would be a more flexible parameter. On failure it returns false:

from win32gui import IsWindowVisible, GetWindowText, EnumWindows,\
ShowWindow, SetForegroundWindow, SystemParametersInfo

#Sub-Functions
def window_enum_handler(hwnd, resultList):
    if IsWindowVisible(hwnd) and GetWindowText(hwnd) != '':
        resultList.append((hwnd, GetWindowText(hwnd)))

#Prime-Functions
def winFocus(partial_window_name):
    SystemParametersInfo(8193, 0, 2 | 1)
    handles=[]
    EnumWindows(window_enum_handler, handles)
    for i in handles:
        if str(partial_window_name).upper() in str(i[1]).upper():
            ShowWindow(i[0], 3)
            SetForegroundWindow(i[0])
            return True
    print(partial_window_name + " was not found")
    return False

winFocus("not existing window")
winFocus("ChroME")