[Gambas-user] Semi-persistent pop-up form?

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 12.11.2013 00:19, schrieb Bruce:
> On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 22:30 +0100, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Le 11/11/2013 21:47, Bruce a écrit :
>>> Is there some way to make a popup form only close on a specific user
>>> action?
>>>
>>> In the attached picture, I have a popup form displaying some statistical
>>> guff about the data displayed in the main form. (I have pixelised the
>>> main form just to highlight the popup.)
>>>
>>> As per design, as soon as the user clicks on the main form, the popup
>>> disappears. In fact, as soon as the user clicks (anything) the popup
>>> disappears.
>>>
>>> What I would like to have happen is that the popup remain active until
>>> the user performs a specific action e.g. presses Alt+F, or whatever.
>>>
>>> (I have tried both the Show and ShowModal approaches, but they have
>>> other problems with things like positioning the popup correctly,
>>> multiple copies etc etc. ShowPopup seems to give the best operation so
>>> far.)
>>>
>>> Even getting to the point of only closing the popup if the click is
>>> within the main form window would help.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> tia
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>
>> Look at the Window.Utility property.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>
> Wonderful!  Almost there. The only problem I have left (ha-ha!) is
> moving the main form to another virtual desktop. In LXDE I can drag the
> main form to the next or prior desktop (or use the window menu "Send to
> Desktop"), I presume that there are equivalent features on other
> desktops, I've just forgotten.
>
> When I do this with the "utility" window open it moves the main form
> correctly but leaves the utility on the original desktop.
>
> This may be an LXDE or OpenBox issue, but I thought maybe someone has
> got an idea.
>
> tia
>

The only idea that springs to my mind is: your program has to care about 
this. Your program will have to know whether or not the utility window 
is open and can close it and reopen it on the other screen. Is that a way?

Rolf