Re: Vertical centering an actor

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Michele <micxgx gmail com> wrote:
> Just to be sure, I've tried with a basic extension. This is the code
> I've used to test it:
>
> const St = imports.gi.St;
> const Main = imports.ui.main;
>
> let actor;
>
> function init() {
>     actor = new St.Bin({ reactive: false });
> }
>
> function enable() {
>         Main.layoutManager.addChrome(actor);
>
>         actor.set_style('border:1px solid red');
>         actor.set_size(100,100);
>         actor.set_position(200,200);
> }
>
> function disable() {
>         actor.destroy();
> }
>
> The part of a window below the red square doesn't get any click. The
> only way to make the actor passive is by setting AffectsInputRegion to
> false in addChrome, but then all the actor's children don't get mouse
> events too.

Hm, I swore we tracked reactivity. We don't. Unfortunately, it's going
to be hard to do. You have to track the actor's children manually --
use Main.layoutManager.trackActor.

> What does COW stand for?

Composite Overlay Window. See
http://blog.mecheye.net/2012/06/the-linux-graphics-stack/ for more
information.

-- 
  Jasper