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

[Khos]

Thanks Benoit,

Pity you won't do it now :) , how can I persuade you to do it faster? I have
an idea but cannot seem to do it with gambas. any ideas how I can use
xwininfo in gambas and extract or collect the information that this xwinutil
util displays? does the util write info to a text file maybe to the
clipboard? there must be a way of getting the  active window info from X or
xwininfo through gambas currently.. can you think of a low-level X11
libraries call/command that I can use with Shell in Gambas to do what I
want? if so I would really be thankful :)

or how could I install the wmctrl util Stefano was advising of and package
it together with my application so when people install it installs both
programs? is that possible?

Thanks
Kim


Benoit Minisini wrote:
> 
> On mercredi 23 janvier 2008, Khos wrote:
>> Hi again,
>> I am still struggling to do this, I have started searching for
>> shell/terminal commands I could try use because  e.g. using shell
>> xwininfo
>> will allow me to hover the mouse over a window, then I click and it will
>> give some info of that window I clicked on...but how can I do this
>> without
>> having to click on the window? I just want to be able to hover over any
>> window and it should give me the windows info (size, is it he active win
>> etc etc). Any ideas? desktop,find won't so this I think.. could you lok
>> into this for me and provide some guidance?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kim
>>
> 
> This is not possible directly in Gambas. Having information on top-level 
> windows is done with low-level X11 libraries call and with the NET
> protocol 
> as specified on freedesktop.org web site.
> 
> xwininfo will gives you all X11 information about a specified window, but
> you 
> won't get the information of the NET protocol.
> 
> I plan to implement the NET protocol in a component by using the
> corresponding 
> class of the KDE libraries. This component will depend on QT, and will
> allow 
> you to get a lot of information from the window manager. But I won't do it 
> now!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Benoit Minisini
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