Re: [gtk-list] Un-minimizing a window?

[Erik Mouw <J A K Mouw its tudelft nl>]

On Fri, 03 Dec 1999 15:30:26 -0800, John Sullivan wrote:
> I've got a menu item that displays a particular window. When that window
> hasn't yet been shown, gtk_widget_show() does the right thing. When the
> window has been shown but is buried by other windows, gdk_window_raise()
> does what I want. But if the window has been minimized by the user,
> neither of these calls have any effect. I can sort of hack around it
> with
> 
>     if (GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE(window))
>         gtk_widget_hide(window);
> 
>     gtk_widget_show(window);
> 
> but this is less than ideal: for example, it flickers if the window is
> on screen, and it moves the window back to its default position (which I
> could deal with separately, but never mind that).
> 
> Is there API lurking somewhere for un-minimizing a window? Or even to
> test whether a window is minimized?

Try XMapWindow() or XMapRaised(). gdk/gdkx.h has some macros to get the
parameters that these functions want.


Erik

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