Re: Popup calendar windows coordinates

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

Tomek wrote:

> Hi!
> I'd like to popup a calendar widget just under button, which opens it.
> The calendar widget is located in window object with no windowmanager
> frame. So on the button click signal, the window->show() is triggered.
>
> That works well, but I'd like to pass coordinates to this window to make
> it appear just under the calling button. So i need button height and
> width and it's top/left coordinates. How to obtain this info?
>
> Maybe you know some application written in C++ using gtkmm/glademm, 
> that has
> this functionality done?
>
> Regards
> Teel
>
>
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Use the Gtk::Widget::get_window() method to obtain a 
Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::Window> pointer to the Gdk::Window of your button 
widget.  Then use the Gdk::Window::get_geometry() method to get top/left 
and height.

See the following on the get_geometry method syntax:  
http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGdk_1_1Window.html#a20

Bob Caryl