[Fxruby-users] Re: How to use FXWindow::attach()? (was: What's New in FOX 1.2)

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:48 AM, rich lyman wrote:

> In the section:
>
> http://www.knology.net/~lyle/fox/1.2/ar01s03s62.html
>
> What does 'foreign window' translate into? A different window in FOX,
> or any other window in the OS?
>
> "The new attach() member function allows a foreign window to be
> swallowed into the FOX widget tree."
>
> Sorry if this question is simple...

No, not a simple question. In fact, I probably glossed over that bit in 
the documentation because it's a little unclear to me what attach() is 
useful for.

The idea is that you can embed a "foreign" window, i.e. some other 
application's window, into your FOX application. I think the way this 
works (at least in C++) is that you'd first create a generic FOX 
window,

	FXWindow *win = new FXWindow(...);

and then call its attach() member function, passing in a X-Window 
handle (XID) or a Win32 window handle (HWND). Obviously, very 
platform-specific stuff, and I'm curious about how well this works in 
practice. You certainly wouldn't be able to generate FOX messages from 
events occurring in those foreign windows (I think?)

I'm Cc'ing this to the foxgui-users list, because I'd like to know if 
anyone is using this feature successfully. ;)