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

[Benoit Minisini]

On dimanche 20 janvier 2008, José Luis Redrejo wrote:
> 2008/1/20, Khos <kim.hoskin at ...1073...>:
> > 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)?
>
> Only the first line, the second one is commented. It was just a comment for
> me to remember the
> returning value of xwininfo. Here you have an example of how it works if
> you execute it in a terminal:
>
> jose at ...1836...:~$ xwininfo -name "monitor - Gambas II"| grep "Window id"
> xwininfo: Window id: 0x3c0000c "monitor - Gambas II"
>
>
> Does xwininfo program give all the info(ID/Title etc) that the mouse is
>
> > hovering over?
>
> if you take a look to "man xwininfo" you will see that you have to pass it
> the window name or the window id and it will return all the data about the
> window. You can also use it just clicking on the selected window to get all
> the information. The way I use it in this code is passing the window name
> to get the window id, as the Embedder control needs the window id. I know
> the window name because it's launched using shell from the same
> application. Depending on your needs you have to choose between the
> different options to use xwininfo.
>
> Regards.
> José L.

To find a window id from its title, you can use the Desktop.Find() method of 
the gb.desktop component.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini