Re: How do I force a window to stay on the top (or bottom)

[Hubert Sokołowski <h sokolowski wsisiz edu pl>]

Hi!

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:01:07 -0400
Irwin Michael G DLVA <IrwinMG NSWC NAVY MIL> wrote:

> Hello.  I have an application in which there is a window taking up the
> majority of the screen, which the user will not be allowed to move. 
> This
> window calls other smaller windows (dialog and selection boxes, stuff
> like
> that).  I need to make sure that these children windows always remain
> on top
> of the main window.  Is there some simple way of doing that?
>
> I've tried calling set_keep_below(true) in the constructor for the
> main
> window, as well as trying set_keep_above(true) in the constructor for
> the
> child window.  Neither of these seems to work.  Am I implementing
> these
> functions wrong, or am I on the wrong track altogether?

try gtk_window_set_transient_for

hs