http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/getting-rid-of-the-python-console-window/ I'm a biologist not a... Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:37:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/getting-rid-of-the-python-console-window/#comment-9 Dammit Jim! :: Active Window Logger Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:33:16 +0000 http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/getting-rid-of-the-python-console-window/#comment-9 [...] I was curious how I spend my time and wanted something simple to log which window was active on my computer. I couldn't see anything that did this easily on the internet, although there is a (more sophisticated/complicated) browsing history tracker, and I needed to relax for an hour or two so I though I'd give it a shot in Python and see what came out. After looking at the flashing taskbar icon tutorial, how to get the currently active window, how to detect if Windows is idle and how to get rid of the console window, I could finally start programming. I really don't know how people programmed before Google. [...] [...] I was curious how I spend my time and wanted something simple to log which window was active on my computer. I couldn’t see anything that did this easily on the internet, although there is a (more sophisticated/complicated) browsing history tracker, and I needed to relax for an hour or two so I though I’d give it a shot in Python and see what came out. After looking at the flashing taskbar icon tutorial, how to get the currently active window, how to detect if Windows is idle and how to get rid of the console window, I could finally start programming. I really don’t know how people programmed before Google. [...]

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