Re: Making widgets visible outside their containing window

["Felix H. Dahlke" <fhd ubercode de>]

Thanks for the hint, looks like they're doing something similar to what
I want to do.

On 07/13/2011 07:12 PM, James Morris wrote:
> 2011/7/13 Felix H. Dahlke <fhd ubercode de>:
> > Thanks for your answers. I did fool around with a popup, but it would
> > also overlap other windows, transient or not. Furthermore, I need it to
> > move relative to the window if that is moved.
> >
> > Maybe it's best if I tell you what I'm trying to do in particular:
> > I'm working on something like a tooltip. However, I don't think I can
> > use normal tooltips, since I need to position it manually (actually, I
> > need it to move out of the way if the mouse cursor approaches it).
> >
> > A popup sounds like the right way to do this, but I need to somehow wire
> > the popup's movement to the window's movement. Is there an easy way to
> > do that?
>
> Take a look at PHAT fan sliders. These are sliders which
> vertical-mouse-movement brings up a fan through which the user gains
> more precision in the slider position. The fans are not bounded by any
> window the widget is associated with. There might be some pointers in
> there for how to do what you want, but note it's unmaintained code by
> now, and also contains some deprecated code.
>
> http://phat.berlios.de/
>
> James.