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2013/12/5 John Rose <john.aaron.r...@gmail.com>: > Fabien, > > I've looked at your "quick & dirty way". I don't think that it's what I > want. I want the user to be able to select a window on the desktop (i.e. > not just Gambas forms in a Gambas app) by clicking on any point in that > window, not selecting it by dragging on the corners of a rectangle to > its corners before clicking. Below is shown the method that I identified > but is it the best/only way? Also, I don't see how to allow for the > situation where the user has clicked a point which is within 2 or more > windows i.e. is there a property of dWindow which shows if that window > is the 'top' one (i.e. covering the other one(s) at that point)? This > means that the user has to first ensure that the required window in on > 'top'. > > As I previously said, the code below shows how to access properties of > all windows (i.e. not just Gambas forms in a Gambas app): > 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 the > properties (i.e. X, Y, Width, Height) of each dWindow, one can determine > which window has been clicked by the user. > > -- > Regards, John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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
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