I have had this problem for ages now with many different projects now, so I really want to find out how to fix it. For example, in one of my projects, I created a level editor for a game. The level editor had the option to save and load different levels from a file using tkinter.filedialog.
Now after I select the file, the game will still work, but the 'X' close button doesn't work anymore, and I can't move the window.
The game itself works as usual, and I can still interact with everything inside of the window, but I can't move or close the window.
Thanks in advance.
Ok. I figured this one out. The problem went away when I called the tkinter functions from a key press, not a mouse press.
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So I am trying to make a python script that when I do a certain hotkey combination, It shows a text box as an overlay like what "Geforce Experience" and "Windows Gamebar" do.
the problem is that in the game when I interact with the text-area loses focus and goes minimized as opposed to the 2 programs I spoke about before, for example windows game bar allows you interact with a lot of options while the game is still on foreground and you close the bar you are left with whatever you were with before...
I'm using tkinter for now, and if there are solution not including tkinter it is Ok as long as it achives the goal.
As far as I understand what you are trying to do is create a overlay for a game and the overlay should be created using tkinter object. Here is a library that can do that, however as far as I remember you needed to change something in it's python file, however this might have already been fixed.
I am using a code designed by another person in MAC OS. I am using Windows instead and have slightly modified it, but the problem comes when using the GUI that is created.
I have already dealt with a similar issue with a slider. Once I pressed the slider, I couldn´t release it or press another button. I was forced to quit the GUI and start again. I solved it by changing the event command from EVT_COMMAND_SCROLL to EVT_COMMAND_SCROLL_THUMBTRACK. However I did not understand why it worked in MAC OS and does not work in Windows.
Now, I want to close the GUI with the typical cross inside the red button in the right corner of the window. I can do it if it is the first order I do in the GUI. If I first press any button or slider, the exit button does not work.
It made me consider if a major problem is hidden in the code which I am not seeing. I am new at wxPython, which is the module used in the code.
I just ask for your opinion and hope it is a basic error.
Thanks very much
I built a small GUI using Tkinter. The GUI features, among some other elements, three buttons. These buttons serve to open a dystem dialog and select certain data-files etc. One of the three buttons is a 'Go' button that runs the underlying data-processing.
When running the .py script the GUI works fine. However, after creating a developer app in alias mode using Py2App the buttons have become invisible! They're still there and usable, but invisible until interacted with.
How can I prevent this from happening?
I was stuck in your exact situation for quite some time. When I ran my tkinter script, it worked perfectly and all the buttons showed up, but once I packaged it, the buttons stopped showing up (They were still there but you couldn't see them). After a long time of trying random things, I found out how to make the buttons and their text show up again. Simply resize the window. Even a difference of 1 or 2 pixels does the trick. I have not yet found a way to PREVENT this issue, but at least this makes the app look right.
Please reply if you figure out a solution to prevent this!
Good Luck!
I have a kivy file with several widgets, one of them is a switch.
The problem is that wherever I press on the screen, it flips the switch.
I have 2 other widgets - one of them is a check-box and another is radio-buttons, which also have some problems and I think they are occuring because of the switch.
The problem is that in order to press them I need to press on a different part of the screen and not on the widget itself.
Any help would be appreciated.
UPDATE
I am using Windows only for development.
You probably have a switch that is larger than you expect. From the documentation of the switch: "The entire widget is active, not just the part with graphics. As long as you swipe over the widget’s bounding box, it will work." I would try changing the background of the switch to see how big it really is.
I made a Python game using Pygame. I try to make it so when it starts, it loads the shell, and entering a raw input would display the pygame window and start the game so that I can make the game playable without having to close the shell. It works, however, the window starts minimized. The game is a simple "dodge the object" and has no pause what so ever. The game still runs in the background, possibly having the player hit multiple projectiles before the user realizes it. Is there a way to focus on the window?
For anyone in the future who stumbles across this question:
As of 2022, pygame v2.1.2 has an experimental module ._sdl2 where: Window.focus() is used to make a window to be moved at the top and set focus. Windows.focus() supports optional input_only bool parameter for whenever the window should be moved at the top (False), or just collect input (True).
As I understood you, you don't want the game to start, before the window is in fullscreen-mode, right?
When I try you attempt (starting through rawinput), my display is fullscreen from the start. Have you set everything correctly?
I suggest that you stop the game until there is an actual key-input (whatever controls you have set). Like this the player has the time to arrange everything to his liking before starting the game. Because, even if you figure out how to analyse the focus-issue: When the game starts, the window HAS focus, therefore this approach wouldn't work anyway.