[Gambas-user] Small window without gadgets

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Hi Toni again :-)

Of course, I knew I'm not that stupid, I got it running, and it's great.

Do you know if it's possible to control if it points upwards or 
downwards? What I found out is, when the control it points to is below 
.Height/2 of its parent, it will point upwards, otherwise downwards. And 
I cannot control left or right pointing, too. Everything else: great thing.

In contrary to Benoit, I think it won't replace Message class, however, 
because it doesn't have buttons the user can click on, there is no 
interaction, so it's limited to displaying something.

About the Tray Icon, I tried with a small window and a balloon pointing 
to its lower right edge. When you drag the window around the screen, the 
balloon won't disappear as long as you are dragging but it will change 
its pointing edge and form. So I dragged the window into the lower right 
edge of the screen, under Kicker and the Tray. The balloon will stop at 
the border of Kicker, it won't continue pointing on the window's edge, 
neither above nor under the tray.

So I guess that Kicker and the tray have another level on the screen, 
above the windows. Maybe one could change this by some option in the 
window manager's control, something like "always there" or "always on 
top" such as in Windows. But your idea should work with either option, 
of course.

Sorry I can't help any more, but thank you for pointing me to the 
balloon thing :-)

Rolf



Toni schrieb:
> Hi Rolf again,
> By ballon I meant "gb.form.ballon", a Message like class.
> I couldn't get it pointing to a Tray Icon, but otherwise I find it 
> pretty nice and unobtrusive :)
> Regards,
> Toni
> 
> 
> 
> En/na Rolf-Werner Eilert ha escrit:
>> Hi Toni,
>>
>> Toni schrieb:
>>   
>>> Hi Rolf,
>>> I'm new to Gambas so maybe other will tell otherwise..., but I think 
>>>     
>> never mind :-) I've been into Gambas for quite some time now, but I'm 
>> still far away from being an expert...
>>
>>   
>>> "Ballon" is what you are looking for.
>>>     
>> Didn't find that - is it one of the examples?
>>
>> In the examples, I did find the thing with the transparent clock and the 
>> other clock example. But those seem to have to do with transparency 
>> rather than with just a window without gadgets.
>>
>> Though I tried to do the same and failed - I don't know why my windows 
>> always have gadgets, even when I say "Border - None", and I cannot make 
>> out any other difference between my own programs and the examples 
>> (except the drawing routines). The examples run flawlessly here, my own 
>> programs always show standard windows.
>>
>> So, where's the trick?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>>   
>>> The only problem is that I haven't been able to get it working pointing 
>>> to a TrayIcon  (that low right edge of the screen you mention).  Hope it 
>>> helps and, in anycase, if there is a better solution I'll be gald to 
>>> hear from it too.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Toni
>>>
>>> En/na Rolf-Werner Eilert ha escrit:
>>>     
>>>> Hi everyone out there...
>>>>
>>>> The question is simple: Is it possible to make a small window without 
>>>> any gadgets appear and disappear after some seconds showing a small hint 
>>>> such as "you got new messages..."?
>>>>
>>>> What I want is something like these hints Thunderbird or the Suse update 
>>>> client produce at the lower right edge of the screen, for my own 
>>>> messenger app here in our firm.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for all ideas.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Rolf
>>>>
>>>>       
>>
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