[Gambas-user] Selecting a window

[Bruce]

On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 20:18 +0100, Fabien Bodard wrote:
> I'm sure to understand what you want to achieve ... what do you mean
> by select a windows ?
> 
> 2013/12/4 John Rose <john.aaron.rose at ...626...>:
> > I want the user to be able to click a point within one of the windows
> > displayed on the desktop (i.e. not just Gambas forms) in order to select
> > that window. The code below shows how to access properties of all windows:
> > Dim dWindow As DesktopWindow = Null
> > Desktop.Windows.Refresh()
> > For Each dWindow In Desktop.Windows
> >    If dWindow.Minimized = False Then
> >       Print "Window: Name=" & dWindow.Name & ", " & "X=" & dWindow.X &
> > ", Y=" & dWindow.Y & ", " & "Width=" & dWindow.Width & ", Height=" &
> > dWindow.Height
> >    Endif
> > Next
> >
> > The only way I've thought of is to define a transparent form covering
> > the whole desktop with an associated mouse click event, which supplies
> > the co-ordinates of the point clicked. Then by examination of each
> > dWindow property (i.e. X, Y, Width, Height), one can determine which
> > window has been clicked. Is that the best way? But how can one allow for
> > the situation where the user has clicked a point which is within 2
> > windows i.e. is there a property of dWindow which shows if that window
> > is the 'top' one (i.e. covering the other one at that point)?
> >


Like Fabian, without understanding exactly what you want to achieve, why
not just shell out to xprop where all this is apparently already solved?

Bruce