RE: Keeping window on top.

[<martyn 2 russell bt com>]

> I have a drawing tool with a floating menu (similar layout to 
> the gimp).
> The drawing area must occupy the entire screen so I need to 
> have the menu
> on top of the drawing window at all times. Will the "modal" 
> attribute help?
> It seems like this would also capture all the focus.

Modal will do the job, if you don't want it to be modal and just want it to be on top of a particular window, 
use gtk_window_set_transient_for() seen here:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-set-transient-for

Regards,
Martyn