[lazarus] Modal / On Top forms

[Tony Maro]

Excellent!  Works perfect (on a few tests anyway)

Thanks,
Tony

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 12:46, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 10:57:21 +0100
> Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 14 Mar 2003 18:43:15 -0600
> > Tony Maro <tony at maro.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Have I missed something or is there still no progress on making modal or
> > > always on top forms always stay on top?
> > 
> > There is a little progress:
> > 
> > Forms created with fsStayOnTop and bsNone are created as GTK_WINDOW_POPUP,
> > so that they stay always on top. The IDE splash screen uses this.
> > 
> > I just fixed and activated the transient relationship for modal forms.
> > That means a modal form always stays on top of the last focused form. It
> > does not stay on top of not focused forms. The best solution would be:
> > When a form is shown modal, all other forms should be transient connected
> > in the current z order. And as soon as the modal form is closed, the
> > artificial transients connections must be dissolved.
> 
> Ok, this was crap. Sometimes modal forms were created behind existing ones.
> Therefore I implemented a hopefully better approach. Everytime a form is
> shown or hidden, all transient relationships are updated. If there is a non
> modal form, there is no transient relationship. If there are modal forms,
> the modal forms are transient in the right order and non modal forms are
> transient due to the gtk window top level list. This is not neccessarily the
> current z order. But it seems that to find out the correct z order is up to
> the gtk2 interface. (Although gtk2 also contains functions to disorder the
> gtk toplevel window list). 
> 
> I hope there is no windowmanager, that does not like resetting the transient
> window relationsship. And I have not tested, what happens, if non top forms
> are hidden, but it should work ... .
> 
> 
> Mattias
> 
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Thanks,

Tony Maro

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