Re: How to raise / focus a window?

[Loban A Rahman <loban ugcs caltech edu>]

The correct way is to use this code snippet:

// Shows if hidden, gets focus, and is placed on top of other windows
gtk_window_present(GTK_WINDOW(note->w_window));

// Moves window to specified spot
gtk_window_move(GTK_WINDOW(note->w_window), note->x, note->y);

Note that you have to "present" before "moving", because the move
function does not affect a hidden window.

Cheers,
Loban

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 01:54, David Topper wrote:
> I've got an app with several windows and one central "master" window 
> which controls hiding / showing of the others.  Unfortunately, I can't 
> seem to raise focus for a window.  I'm doing the following:
> 
>     if (GTK_IS_WIDGET(s_obj->perl_buf->window)) {
>         gtk_widget_set_uposition(GTK_WIDGET(s_obj->perl_buf->window),
>                             s_obj->perl_buf->x,
>                             s_obj->perl_buf->y);
>         gtk_widget_show(GTK_WIDGET(s_obj->perl_buf->window));
>         gtk_window_activate_focus(s_obj->perl_buf->window);
> 
> But it doesn't seem to work.  I've also changed my WM from "focus 
> follows mouse" to "click to focus" and neither works.  I'm running 
> Slackware 9 and KDE.  
> 
> Anyone have an idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> DT
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