Re: Window geometry?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Chris Quinn <cq htec demon co uk> writes:
> I've got a window that appears when the cursor moves over an icon,
> and which disappears when the cursor leaves the area covered by
> it. I catch LEAVE_NOTIFY events but unfortunately this seems to
> include movement *into* buttons populating the window ie. if the
> cursor is on a blank part of the window then moves into the area of
> a button. I tried catching such signals for each of the buttons but
> had no joy (maybe I should have used the 'after' versions?).  I
> thought a simpler solution would be to find the geometry of the
> window and just check against cursor position.  But, improbably, I
> have not found an interface function or structure yielding this
> info.
>
> Any ideas?

The "detail" field of the enter/leave event will give you some idea
which window the pointer has moved into. (ancestor or child window).

Havoc