comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive

Home » Public Forums » archive » Floating base widget

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: Floating base widget [message #17957 is a reply to message #17895]

Fri, 19 November 1999 00:00

Daniel Peduzzi
Messages: 29
Registered: June 1999

Junior Member

David Fanning wrote in message ...
> Daniel Peduzzi (peduzzi@mediaone.net) writes:
>
>> I would like to create a window which can never be obscured by its
>> group leader, but I can't seem to force the window to remain "on top."
>>
>> According to the IDL documentation, by setting the "floating" keyword
>> when creating a top-level base, the "floating base widget will always
>> appear above the base specified as the group leader."
>
> The documentation must have been talking about Windows
> machines, because this floater really does float on my
> Windows NT machine. No way I can get the first widget on
> top of the second.
>

Argh...I'm definitely not seeing the same behavior, even
though the docs do include Motif in the above description. :-(

My intent was to present the user with a list of options
in a popup window, triggered by a 3rd mouse button click
in a draw widget. Depending upon the (x,y) location of the
mouse click, the items in the list (selectable by the 1st
mouse button) could be different.

Everything works well except that the pop-up can get lost
behind other windows, and it becomes a pain to look for because
of its size. A floating base would have solved that problem.

I guess what I'm trying to simulate is what happens when
a user right-mouse-clicks on a bare desktop in a Microsoft
environment (or close enough.)

Can anybody point me in the right direction here?

Dan

Dan Peduzzi
peduzzi@mediaone.net

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Floating base widget By: Daniel Peduzzi on Wed, 17 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Floating base widget By: J.D. Smith on Fri, 19 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Floating base widget By: Daniel Peduzzi on Fri, 19 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Floating base widget By: davidf on Fri, 19 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Floating base widget By: Marc Schellens on Fri, 19 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Floating base widget By: Daniel Peduzzi on Fri, 19 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Floating base widget By: Daniel Peduzzi on Fri, 19 November 1999 00:00
		Re: Floating base widget By: J.D. Smith on Tue, 23 November 1999 00:00

Previous Topic:	Obtaining the number of the current color table
Next Topic:	X window display sizes

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Wed Oct 08 19:27:28 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.00389 seconds