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

[Jaap Cramer]

Hi Kim

If you want to use xwininfo (and any other program for that matter), you can with gambas. use SHELL

DIM s AS String
SHELL "xwininfo" TO s
message(s)

These three lines store the consloe output to variable s. I chose to output S in a message. You can ofcoarse change that, and get your needed information out of s by the usual stringcommands

goodluck!

Jaap


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> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:42:11 -0800
> From: kim.hoskin at ...1073...
> To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] New to Gambas - coding question how to find the active window on an Ubuntu 7.10 desktop
> 
> 
> 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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