nanogui: Child Windows
Subject:
Re: Child Windows
From:
"Amit Kulkarni" ####@####.####
Date:
26 Jan 2001 06:24:48 -0000
Message-Id: <F167OWHJVkl4AU1O6Ya00000918@hotmail.com>
hi,
i've been around with this decorating thing for quite some time and i have a
few words to say on the decoration issue. It is rather wierd for the
windowmanager to look for parents of windows and decorate them if they are
children of GR_ROOT_WINDOW_ID. In my own humble opinion there should be a
bit corresponding to each window saying "Decorate me" (Like GTK_TOP_LEVEL)
and if that is set then the fancy border should be drawn. Most of the
windowing systems work this way and that should be the way to go for nano-X
too. There may be windows which are NOT children of the root window and
still need decoration (like in apps with multiple windows.... windows mIRC
might be one of them). Or there may be windows which are children of the
root window but there is no sense decorating them (menus on right click are
an example of these).
This whole idea of decoration needs a bit of rethinking (maybe many versions
later.. but sometime !)
Regards,
Amit Kulkarni
http://www.amitkulkarni.com
>From: Jordan Crouse ####@####.####
>To: Mark Trinidad ####@####.####
>CC: ####@####.####
>Subject: Re: Child Windows
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:55:36 -0700
>
>When you create a new FLTK window, the code automatically parents it to
>GR_ROOT_WINDOW_ID. The window manager sees this, and decorates the
>window accordingly. So the solution is as follows:
>
>You need to create the window, and you need to purposely reparent it
>(since the code doesn't reparent on its own). So, for example:
>
>foo = new Fl_Window(0,0,100,100);
>bar = new Fl_Window(0,0, 50, 50);
><....>
>
>bar->end();
>bar->parent(foo);
>foo->end();
>
>That way, the child window is appropriately parented, and the window
>manager won't get involved.
>
>If anyone can determine a good way to automatically handle child
>windows, please feel free to speak up!
>Jordan
>
>Mark Trinidad wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I created an FLTK program and recompiled it under
> > FLNX. Thanks to some of your help, I managed to get
> > my program compiled and running.
> >
> > Well... my issue right now is with child windows.
> > Under FLTK everything works fine, but when I do my
> > FLNX build I have my child windows popping up as
> > parent windows. Is the support for child windows not
> > yet complete? Or is there something I need to do with
> > my code? Thanks.
> >
> > -Mark
> >
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