From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
Cc: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>,
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"Emacs-Devel devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add function to make frame topmost?
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 00:46:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <j2re01d8a51005011546z73ffc792ra5b215c0844907fb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BDC84FF.8030803@harpegolden.net>
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:46 PM, David De La Harpe Golden
<david@harpegolden.net> wrote:
> Jan Djärv wrote:
>>
>>
>> Lennart Borgman skrev 2010-05-01 01.22:
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>
>> 7 and 8 on X must depend on input focus. If emacs looses input focus it
>> can be considered not active.
>
> I think 7 and 8 might have been groping towards transient-for, actually.
>
> 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)
>
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-01 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-30 1:48 Add function to make frame topmost? Lennart Borgman
2010-04-30 13:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-30 13:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-30 20:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-30 22:02 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-30 22:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-01 8:00 ` Jan Djärv
2010-04-30 22:32 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-04-30 23:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-01 1:48 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01 2:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-01 13:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-01 18:03 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01 20:20 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-01 22:02 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01 22:09 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 14:07 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-02 15:27 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 15:58 ` stack-order (z-order) parameter for frames [was: Add function to make frame topmost?] Drew Adams
2010-05-01 22:44 ` Add function to make frame topmost? Lennart Borgman
2010-05-02 1:18 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 7:47 ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-02 12:52 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 7:27 ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-02 12:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-05-02 12:53 ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-02 13:44 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-03 3:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-05-02 14:43 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 14:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-02 14:55 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 16:48 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 18:58 ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-02 21:32 ` Desktop bubble notifications [Was: Re: Add function to make frame topmost?] David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-03 0:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-03 2:29 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-03 19:46 ` Stephen Eilert
2010-05-03 19:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-04 11:48 ` Desktop bubble notifications Bastien
2010-05-02 19:17 ` Add function to make frame topmost? chad
2010-05-03 3:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-05-02 14:01 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-02 15:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-03 3:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-05-03 9:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-03 17:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-03 19:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-03 21:31 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-02 0:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-02 1:17 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01 2:10 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01 2:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-01 3:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-03 16:39 ` Tom Tromey
2010-05-03 19:33 ` systray support [was: Re: Add function to make frame topmost?] Dan Nicolaescu
2010-05-01 3:19 ` Add function to make frame topmost? David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01 8:28 ` Jan Djärv
2010-05-01 19:46 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-05-01 22:46 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-05-01 5:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-03 12:47 ` Lennart Borgman
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