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Re: How to keep a widget in front? [message #5297 is a reply to message #5296]

Wed, 15 November 1995 00:00

thompson
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fireman@iuegtc.gsfc.nasa.gov (Gwyn F. Fireman) writes:

> How do I keep an IDL widget in front of all windows? I have a small
> floating widget and don't want to lose sight of it when clicking on the
> larger widget behind it. I'd prefer not to use WIDGET_CONTROL,/SHOW as it
> would mean always passing the ID for the smaller widget to the event
> handler of the larger - and the two may be unrelated.

Gwyn:

Here's an idea that I haven't tested. Supposed that you added a TIMER event to
your widget base. Then you could use that to bring the window to the
foreground at regular intervals, e.g. once per second.

Bill Thompson

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