Alan Crowe <alan@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
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| Rob Warnock suggests
| > Fortunately, there is a simple solution for this!! Just add this after
| > your XLIB:CREATE-WINDOW call but before the XLIB:MAP-WINDOW call:
| >
| > (xlib:set-wm-properties my-window
| > :name my-window-title ; a string
| > :icon-name my-icon-title ; a string
| > :user-specified-position-p t)
|
| I've changed the text of my first example. It now reads
| ..
| (The intervention of the window manager, known as
| redirection, is undesirable when you are popping up a menu
| window, and can be turned off, that is overridden, with
| ":override-redirect :on". Don't try this now. Since the
| window manager has been told to stay out of it, it will not
| put a border round your window, so there might be nothing to
| see even if the code works.)
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Whereas if you use (set-wm-properties :user-specified-position-p t),
the WM still decorates the window (border, titlebar), but (hopefully)
puts it where you asked for it to be with (create-window :x x :y y ...).
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| I've uploaded an extra example (that I wrote a while ago) that uses
| xlib:change-properties to set the wm_name property so as to
| give the window a name. That introduces properties and sets
| the scene for menu code that will actually use
| :user-specified-position-p t or :override-redirect.
|
| I used xlib:change-properties because I didn't know about
| xlib:set-wm-properties. It is missing from the index of my
| copy of the CLX programmer's Reference.
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Well, *I* didn't know about XLIB:CHANGE-PROPERTIES, 'cuz I never
read all the way through the CLX Programmer's Reference. ;-}
I learned about XLIB:SET-WM-PROPERTIES from some analogous
code in one of the Elk Scheme XLIB examples, and found that
CLX provided the same function.
And I didn't know about (create-window :override-redirect :on ...),
either, so thanks for that! ;-}
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| Is there any reason to prefer one or the other?
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Except for your observation about keyword args vs. positional,
I don't. But then, I really don't know enough about the X Windows
protocol to be giving very much advice. :-(
-Rob
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