On 20 Sep 2005 17:13:51 +0000, Marcel Linden wrote:
>
> > It is the same tracker, created before the main loop. This supposes you
> > need it at all, i.e. having an updated list of all windows with their
> > meta data at any moment (except for window flags). You don't need it for
> > simple tasks, having a window id is often enough.
>
> Sorry, I don't really get the point. So, just to be sure:
> When I want to write a plugin that gets the windowid of every opened
> window that doesn't have the SkipWindowList-Flag set, I've to use a
> tracker ( $tracker = $module->track("WindowList"); ) and after that I've
If you need just ids of windows matching some criteria, you don't need a
tracker. If you need the non-id data, like window name, page or
coordinates, then you may use WindowList tracker (although you may just
manually listen to appropiate events yourself instead if you like).
> to send a message to all windows that don't have the flag
> ( $module->send("All (!WindowListSkip) SendToModule $module->{name} apply");
> )?
This command does not send message to all windows, it sends "apply"
messages to your own module, one per window. This way you may collect all
matching ids. It is possible you also need to send "end-of-list" message
after all "apply" messages, so you can know when to stop to collect.
If all this is hard to understand, then wait for support of flags.
Please ask on the list, not privately.
Regards,
Mikhael.
