Change the active Window

Question

I'm looking for a way to set the active window. The only solutions I found are outdated. They included modules like pywinauto but its focus() function doesn't work.

I need something that quickly switches/makes another window active.

I tried the code below, but it doesn't work as it says object has no attribute 'focus'

import pygetwindow as gw

win = gw.getWindowsWithTitle('Photoshop')[0]
win.focus()

I am using Windows 8

user_2280890 · Answer

I think the object method you're after is activate:

>>> help(win.activate)
Help on method activate in module 
pygetwindow._pygetwindow_win:

activate() method of 
pygetwindow._pygetwindow_win.Win32Window instance
    Activate this window and make it the foreground window.

So changing your code as follows should work.

import pygetwindow as gw

win = gw.getWindowsWithTitle('Photoshop')[0]
win.activate()

Change the active Window

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