Re: Notification Widget

[Vikram Ambrose <noel ambrose gmail com>]

Now that we're done with who-knows-the-philosophy-of-libnoitfy better, 
maybe we can get back to writing some code?

Three items remaining to solve for my notification widget's boarderless, 
GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL GtkWindow.

Vikram Noel Ambrose wrote:
> [SNIP]... all my "notification widget" logic seems to work except:
>
> 2. If I add a gtk_box into the window and then later 
> gtk_widget_destroy an item from the box, the notification window does 
> not automatically resize. Calling either gtk_widget_queue_resize or 
> gtk_widget_reset_shapes on the notification window has no effect. How 
> do I get the notification window to resize once I've removed something 
> from it?
>
> 3. If the user moves the main application's TOPLEVEL window, the 
> notification window does not move with it. I have set 
> gtk_window_set_transient_for() . How do I get the notification's 
> TOPLEVEL window to move with the main application's TOPLEVEL window?
>
>
> 4. I don't know how to position the notification window properly. I'd 
> like the notification window to fit into the bottom left corner of the 
> main application's TOPLEVEL window.
>
> ------Main Window ------
> |                      |
> |                      |
> |                      |
> |                      |
> |--NotifyWin---        |
> |             |        |
> |             |        |
> ------------------------
>
> Hopefully my ascii art came through right. At the moment, I'm asking 
> the main window for its geometry and then doing the following 
> calculations.
>
> Notify_X = Main_X;
> Notify_Y = Main_Y + Main_Height - Notify_reqHeight;
>
> The problem seems to be that Notify window's requested height can only 
> be captured after the gtk_window_show. This means I'll be moving the 
> window to its position while its visible to the user. I don't want to 
> do this. Is there a way of getting the notify window to just align 
> itself to that corner automagically? Window gravity perhaps?

Vik.