Re: Putting a window into the foreground...

["Joshua Horvath" <Josh_Horvath-AJH051 email mot com>]

You can use gdk_window_raise(your_window->window) to raise a particular window
to the top of the stack.

-Josh

Raymond Wan wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>         Sorry for my endless postings lately, but I think I'm trying to do
> a lot of new things in a short amount of time and haven't been able to
> find documentation to help me.  Please bare with me...  ;)
> 
>         What I would like to do is to put a window into the foreground but
> without making it modal.  That is, if I have 3 windows on the screen, I
> just want to somehow draw attention to a particular one while still
> allowing a user to use any of the other windows.  The Windows solution :)
> would be to make the border flash; I think UNIX considers whichever window
> is below the mouse to be the "current" window.  But anything to draw
> attention to that particular window will be fine...including neon-coloured
> arrows surrounding it.  =)
> 
>         Thank you in advance!
> 
> Ray