I'm sure to understand what you want to achieve ... what do you mean by select a windows ?
2013/12/4 John Rose <john.aaron.r...@gmail.com>: > I want the user to be able to click a point within one of the windows > displayed on the desktop (i.e. not just Gambas forms) in order to select > that window. The code below shows how to access properties of all windows: > Dim dWindow As DesktopWindow = Null > Desktop.Windows.Refresh() > For Each dWindow In Desktop.Windows > If dWindow.Minimized = False Then > Print "Window: Name=" & dWindow.Name & ", " & "X=" & dWindow.X & > ", Y=" & dWindow.Y & ", " & "Width=" & dWindow.Width & ", Height=" & > dWindow.Height > Endif > Next > > The only way I've thought of is to define a transparent form covering > the whole desktop with an associated mouse click event, which supplies > the co-ordinates of the point clicked. Then by examination of each > dWindow property (i.e. X, Y, Width, Height), one can determine which > window has been clicked. Is that the best way? But how can one allow for > the situation where the user has clicked a point which is within 2 > windows i.e. is there a property of dWindow which shows if that window > is the 'top' one (i.e. covering the other one at that point)? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK > Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. > Download it for free now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- Fabien Bodard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user