Re: Add function to make frame topmost?

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:46 PM, David De La Harpe Golden
<david@harpegolden.net> wrote:
> Jan Djärv wrote:
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>> Lennart Borgman skrev 2010-05-01 01.22:
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>>> 1) a frame which is topmost.
>>> 2) looks like a tooltip frame
>>> 3) can show different things
>>> 4) can be hidden
>>> 5) can be shown without becoming active
>>> 6) never becomes the active window
>>> 7) looses it topmost property when switching to another app.
>>> 8) regains it when switching back
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>> 7 and 8 on X must depend on input focus.  If emacs looses input focus it
>> can be considered not active.
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> I think 7 and 8 might have been groping towards transient-for, actually.
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> Rather than "topmost" lennart might really be looking for is transient-for
> (on windows I think called an "owned" window -

Yes, you are right. I just tested. For this purpose "owned windows" on
w32 seems to fit very good.

> Given toplevel windows A and B, B might be transient-for A on x11
> and B might be owned-by A on w32.  Then B always appears above
> A in the stacking order)
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