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

[Rich <ri...@li...>]

Holy wow!! :-)

If that works... *get's on rollercoaster and acts like a little kid*
WHEEEEEE!!!

-Rich
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyle Johnson" <ly...@kn...>
To: "rich lyman" <fx...@gm...>
Cc: <fxr...@li...>; "FOX Users"
<fox...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 5:48 AM
Subject: [Fxruby-users] Re: How to use FXWindow::attach()? (was: What's New
in FOX 1.2)


>
> 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. ;)
>
>
>
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