On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 20:18 +0100, Fabien Bodard wrote: > 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)? > >
Like Fabian, without understanding exactly what you want to achieve, why not just shell out to xprop where all this is apparently already solved? Bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
