Re: [Openev-discuss] Re: More ??

[Diana Esch-M. <des...@la...>]

Right, this works for the viewer, but does not seem to work for a dialog
window. 

Diana

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 10:19, Paul Spencer wrote:
> Sorry, I probably should have said a subclass of GtkWindow ;). 
> GvViewWindow inherits all the functionality of a GtkWindow so you can 
> call self.set and self.get_window() on GvViewWindow.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul
> 
> Diana Esch-Mosher wrote:
> > Paul,
> > 
> > Well, this is good .... but .... how do I get the instance of the window
> > when it is known to me through a another class. For instance a viewer is
> > known as  <gvviewwindow.GvViewWindow instance>. This is also the case
> > for any dialog window that is defined as its own class and calls
> > GtkWindow.__init__(self)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Diana
> > 
> > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 21:11, Paul Spencer wrote:
> > 
> >>Diana,
> >>
> >>you can set one or more of these properties on a GtkWindow by passing 
> >>them in a dictionary to the set function on a GtkWindow instance, 
> >>example as follows:
> >>
> >>self.set({'width' : 640, 'height' : 480, 'x' : 0, 'y' : 0})
> >>
> >>which would resize the window to 640x480 and position the origin at 0,0 
> >>(top left).
> >>
> >>I 'discovered' this while trying to do what you are tringing to do.  It 
> >>took some experimentation :)  These values actually get passed to a 
> >>GdkWindow instance.  I ran across this in description.py that comes with 
> >>pygtk.
> >>
> >>You can access the properties as follows:
> >>
> >>x = self.get_window().x
> >>y = self.get_window().y
> >>width = self.get_window().width
> >>height = self.get_window().height
> >>
> >>Also of possible use are two functions exposed in gtk.py, screen_width() 
> >>and screen_height()
> >>
> >>I've cc'd openev-discuss for the benefit of other listers.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>Paul
> >>
> >>Diana Esch-Mosher wrote:
> >>
> >>>Paul,
> >>>
> >>>Is there a way to absolutely position a window on the screen and also is
> >>>there a way to get the current position of a window on the screen? Not
> >>>obvious to me anywhere in the documentation!
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
-- 
Diana Esch-Mosher <des...@la...>
Los Alamos National Laboratory