Re: [Foxgui-users]The 'active' window

[Davy D. <dd...@ne...>]

Okay, I'm still trying to figure out just how to get an event when a window
is raised...

I put some print statements in FXApp::dispatchEvent to see it is even
getting called when a window is raised... It doesn't seem to be getting
called when I click on one window to raise it above another...

Is there something in X's API that you have to specifically ask for the
events you want?

Is there such a thing as a 'raise' event or is this simply something the
window manager does?

   Alternativly, is there a way of seeing if one window is above another
(and I don't mean window in a general since, but specifically a top level
window)...   If this is possible, I could just iterate over all the top
level windows that my app has created (not more than a few) and see which
is on top...   Is this possible?

Thanks,
   Davy



Davy Durham wrote:

>    Okay.. In my sound editor I have several loaded sounds each with
> their own window, then there's a FXMainWindow which has play controls on
> it...
>
>    The multiple sound windows were each created with the main window as
> their owner (the first argument to FXTopWindow)
>
>    Now, when the user hits the play button, I would like to know the
> 'active' sound window and start that one playing.....  However I say
> 'active' and not focused because some people like to have the focus
> follow the mouse pointer (as I do).  So when I go to hit the play
> button, that sound window is no longer focused....  Also, I can't use
> the last-focused-sound-window because as I move the mouse, other
> window's might have been focused as the mouse travels to the play button
> (although they would not have not come to the top without clicking on
> them)
>
>    So what I think I need to do is use the last 'raised' sound window,
> as that is the one most probably last edited on that they want to
> hear.   Well, I tried to get the SEL_RAISED event, but couldn't.
> I added a new ID_THIS to my ID enum, then in the constructor of
> CSoundWindow I setSelector(ID_THIS) and setTarget(this), and added an
> entry in CSoundWindow's map array [SEL_RAISED, CSoundWindow::ID_THIS,
> CSoundWindow::onRaised]
>    I don't seem to ever get the onRaised event...  I just need to know
> when this FXTopWindow was raised, then I'll set a variable of the main
> window in the event handle to 'this' so it'll be the 'last raised' sound
> window.
>    I also tryed overriding raise(), but that only happens initially at
> creation
>
> Any ideas?
>
>  Thanks,
>    Davy
>
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