/KivyOnTop

Makes Kivy windows stay at the top.

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

KivyOnTop

Makes Kivy windows stay on top of others. Works by manipulating window tags via win32gui library. Install with python -m pip install KivyOnTop.

Note: This wrapper only supports the Windows platform at the moment.

Features

  • set and reset the always on top flag for a Kivy window

Usage example

from kivy.App import App
from kivy.core.window import Window
from KivyOnTop import register_topmost, unregister_topmost


TITLE = 'KivyOnTop'


class KivyontopApp(App):
    def on_start(self, *args):
        Window.set_title(TITLE)

        # Register top-most
        register_topmost(Window, TITLE)

        # Unregister top-most (not necessary, only an example)
        self.bind(on_stop=lambda *args, w=Window, t=TITLE: unregister_topmost(w, t))
 

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = KivyontopApp()
    app.run()