[Gambas-user] New to Gambas - coding question how to find the active window on an Ubuntu 7.10 desktop

[Khos]

Hi Jose,

I emailed you direct but if there is anyone else who can provide input that
would be great. Am I correct in thinking that your 2 lines of code:
SHELL "xwininfo -name \"" & title & "\"| grep \"Window id\" " to result1
  'result1=xwininfo: Window id: 0x3201eca "title" 

Will give me the active window's title on the Ubuntu desktop (any
app/window)?
Does xwininfo program give all the info(ID/Title etc) that the mouse is
hovering over?

Thanks
Kim


José Luis Redrejo wrote:
> 
> I'm using this code to do something similar to what you asked, but not
> over
> a text box, but on over a Embedder control. You'll have to use such
> control,
> and maybe use it inserted in a container component with your textbox if
> you
> need the textbox. It works perfectly with qt or gtk components. The only
> pre-requisite is that you have to know the exact window Title of the app
> you
> want to embed:
> 
> 
> At my Form I have:
> 
> PUBLIC SUB Presence_Embed(windowTitle AS String)
> DIM key AS Integer
>   key = Utils.getWindowID(windowTitle)
>   WAIT 1
>   IF key > 0 THEN
>     emb.Embed(key)
>     WAIT
>     emb.SetFocus
>   ENDIF
>   emb.Visible = TRUE
> 
> END
> 
> 
> And at a Static Class Utils, I use for many other, things I have:
> 
> STATIC PUBLIC FUNCTION getWindowID(title AS String) AS Integer
>   DIM result1 AS String
>   DIM result2 AS String
>   DIM beginning AS Integer
> 
>   SHELL "xwininfo -name \"" & title & "\"| grep \"Window id\" " to result1
>   'result1=xwininfo: Window id: 0x3201eca "title"
>   IF result1 = "" THEN
>     WAIT 2
>     SHELL "xwininfo -name \"" & title & "\"| grep \"Window id\" " to
> result1
> 
>   ENDIF
>   beginning = InStr(result1, "0x")
> 
>   result2 = Mid$(result1, beginning + 2, 7)
>   'result2 = Mid$(result1, Len("xwininfo: Window id:  0x"),
> Len("3a00003"))
>   IF NOT IsNull(result2) THEN
>      RETURN CInteger(Val("&H" & result2))
>   ELSE
>     RETURN 0
>   ENDIF
> 
> END
> 
> 
> 
> I think the code is pretty self-explained. If not don't hesitate in asking
> any question.
> Regards.
> José L.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2008/1/20, Khos <kim.hoskin at ...1073...>:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Khos wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am quite new to Ubuntu and Gambas worlds but wanted to ask you a
>> > Gambas (which seems to be a such a brilliant piece of software by the
>> > way) coding related question. Hope you won't mind helping me out. How
>> > would I be able to find an active window's caption of any window on the
>> > Ubuntu desktop to show it in a text box on my Gambas created
>> > application?
>> >
>> > I apologize if I sent this in error to the wrong group but hope you
>> could
>> > point me in
>> > the right direction or provide some sample code.
>> >
>> > Many thanks,
>> > Kim
>> >
>>
>> Hi, Anyone have any advise for me? please help :)
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