Re: How to raise / focus a window?

[Shaun McCance <shaunm wolfram com>]

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 03:54, 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?

I believe the function you're looking for is gtk_window_present.  You
should probably never call gtk_widget_set_uposition.  gtk_widget_show
will only do something if the window is hidden (not just obscured by
other window).  However, gtk_window_present calls gtk_widget_show for
you, so you don't have to worry about that.  And unless you're doing
something you haven't described, gtk_window_activate_focus is probably
not what you want.  I activates the widget in the window that currently
has keyboard focus.

So, just call:
gtk_window_present(GTK_WINDOW(s_obj->perl_buf_window));

See also:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-present

--
Shaun