[New Feature]Always on top about rebirthitemtracker

[Zamiell]

There's no real need to add this to the tracker, as this can be accomplished in literally one line using AutoHotkey:

; A hotkey of Windows Key + x
#x::
    ; Set the currently active window to "AlwaysOnTop" mode, or disable it if it was already set that way
    Winset, AlwaysOnTop, Toggle, A

    ; Play a sound so that I know the hotkey was pressed
    SoundPlay, C:\Windows\Media\Windows Logoff Sound.wav
return

[Zamiell]

This lists how to add this option:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1482565/how-to-make-python-window-run-as-always-on-top

It seems it would only take adding 2 additional lines? Something like:

if option.alwaysontop:
    SetWindowPos(pygame.display.get_wm_info()['window'], -1, x, y, 0, 0, 0x0001)

[Hyphen-ated]

when i call that function, it can successfully set the size and position, but it doesn't do the always-on-top

[viroulep]

I forgot to post it there, when looking for a platform independent solution I found this :
http://pygame.org/project-Window+Manager+Extensions-515-.html

If using a pygame extension is fine I could take a look at this in like 2 weeks.

[viroulep]

I forgot to say that I looked into it.
tl;dr: Zam's lines "should" have worked, and please make this a Windows-specific option.

Long version :

Windows

The extension is pretty straightforward, basically it does what Zam said :
SetWindowPos(getSDLWindow(), zorder, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE|SWP_NOSIZE)
Which translates to :

from ctypes import windll
windll.user32.SetWindowPos(pygame.display.get_wm_info()['window'], -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0x0003)

(the SWP_NOMOVE flag tells no to modify the window position, so x/y would be ignored)
So if Hyphen tested it and it didn't work then idk...
Both the extension and the SO question are quite old, pygame and/or windows may have changed stuff in between. I can't be very helpful with this.

Linux

It's... complicated.
First of all there is not only one window manager.
The program can set a bunch of predefined "hints" that may, or may not, be handled by the window manager (in this case the _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE, from the Extended Window Manager Hints).
I use a tiling window manager, floating windows support is here only for edge cases like "print" or "save as" popups, or specific app like inkscape/gimp (and in my case Isaac windowed+tracker+timer, which do not overlap). In the context of such a WM, there is not much use-case for a z-order on floating windows, and i3 just doesn't support it.
Still, I could extract a minimal set of changes from the extension and run it. It obviously doesn't work for me, but the most popular desktop environments (gnome/kde) have support for this, so I believe it would work.
However I actually don't have a use for this feature, and I'm not setting up a VM to test this :p
If someone else want to bring the linux support for this feature, I can push a rough draft of the changes needed somewhere. Maybe @Nandicre would be interested to do this, he mentioned he was using arch and I think he uses xfce, which claims having support for EWMH.
Not sure it's worth it though.