How do I take out the focus or minimize a window with Python?

Question

I need to get focus to a specified window, and the only way I'm seeing on my head, is minimizing all windows on front of it until I get the right one...

How can I do it?

Windows 7, and no specific toolkit....

Every type of window, for example, firefox and console command

Answer 1

You'll need to enumerate through the windows and match the title of the window to get the one you want. The code below searches for a window with "firefox" in the title and sets the focus:

import win32gui

toplist = []
winlist = []
def enum_callback(hwnd, results):
    winlist.append((hwnd, win32gui.GetWindowText(hwnd)))

win32gui.EnumWindows(enum_callback, toplist)
firefox = [(hwnd, title) for hwnd, title in winlist if 'firefox' in title.lower()]
# just grab the first window that matches
firefox = firefox[0]
# use the window handle to set focus
win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(firefox[0])

To minimize the window, the following line:

import win32con
win32gui.ShowWindow(firefox[0], win32con.SW_MINIMIZE)