Re: [anjuta-devel] Accessing GDL dock items from plugins

[Naba Kumar <naba kumar gmail com>]

Hi James,

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:05 AM, James Liggett <jrliggett cox net> wrote:
> So what would be the best way to do this? Preliminarily I think that we
> could add some kind of "widget select watch" facility to AnjutaShell
> where plugins could register callbacks for selection/deselection of
> their widgets. But I'm a little apprehensive about this as it seems like
> a lot of work for a very simple event. Could there be a simpler way to
> do this without letting plugins mess with GDL directly?
Try out the mapped/unmapped signals on your widget (not gdl widget)
for that. The idea being all mapped widgets in the dock (and possibly,
floating/outside-the-dock items) are "on the screen" while unmapped
ones are not.

Thanks.

Regards,
-Naba