Toasterbox or modal dialog that doesn't take the focus

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Hi,

I wrote a little application that tightly interfaces with our Zimbra
server and will display a pop-up message box in the lower left-hand
corner, very much like the one for Outlook or Thunderbird. However, my
custom pop-up dialog and Andrea Gavana's Toasterbox both seem to be modal
and take away the focus from the current window to itself. This can be
quite irritating when one is coding or writing an email and suddenly your
typing is interrupted while the dialog appears and disappears.

Does anyone know how Thunderbird or Outlook creates a dialog that shows up
on top of all other windows but doesn't take away the focus? I'd read the
Thunderbird source, but I don't even know where to start looking in there.

I am using Windows XP SP2, Python 2.4 and wxPython 2.8.6.1 (msw-unicode).

Thanks!

Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist
MCIS - Technology Center

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Mike Driscoll wrote:

Hi,

I wrote a little application that tightly interfaces with our Zimbra
server and will display a pop-up message box in the lower left-hand
corner, very much like the one for Outlook or Thunderbird. However, my
custom pop-up dialog and Andrea Gavana's Toasterbox both seem to be modal
and take away the focus from the current window to itself. This can be
quite irritating when one is coding or writing an email and suddenly your
typing is interrupted while the dialog appears and disappears.

Does anyone know how Thunderbird or Outlook creates a dialog that shows up
on top of all other windows but doesn't take away the focus? I'd read the
Thunderbird source, but I don't even know where to start looking in there.

I am using Windows XP SP2, Python 2.4 and wxPython 2.8.6.1 (msw-unicode).

Try using a wx.PopupWindow.

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