marshall@software.org (Eric Marshall) (06/09/90)
How can you obtain information concerning the window hierarchy, e.g. all of the created windows, their parents, their size and location, etc? Thanks in advance. Eric Marshall Software Productivity Consortium SPC Building 2214 Rock Hill Road Herndon, VA 22070 (703) 742-7153 UUCP: ...!uunet!software!marshall ARPANET: marshall%software.org@relay.cs.net
mh@awds26.imsd.contel.com (Mike Hoegeman) (06/12/90)
> > How can you obtain information concerning the window >hierarchy, e.g. all of the created windows, their parents, their >size and location, etc? > > Thanks in advance. canvases have in them attributes such as TopChild CanvasAbove CanvasBelow etc... see NeWS ref. man. for descriptions. You could first start by sending a message to all the windows (see the All Windows menu code for the root menu) from this list you can figure out who is above who etc... using the keys i mentioned above for each windows FrameCanvas. -mike
wim@ecn.nl (Wim Rijnsburger) (06/12/90)
In article <54110@wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM> mh@awds26.UUCP (Mike Hoegeman) writes: >> >> How can you obtain information concerning the window >>hierarchy, e.g. all of the created windows, their parents, their >>size and location, etc? ... > canvases have in them attributes such as TopChild CanvasAbove > CanvasBelow etc... see NeWS ref. man. for descriptions. NeWS version 2.0, which we have in beta here, supports this with: - canvasesunderpath - canvasesunderpoint Wim. ---------- Netherlands Energy Research Foundation, ECN -------------- Wim Rijnsburger email: RIJNSBURGER@ECN.NL P.O. Box 1, 1755 ZG Petten, Holland phone: +31 2246 4673