[Lazarus] Getting X Window handle ?

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

Why not a TContol (or TWinControl) method?

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> zeljko wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 06 of November 2012 10:20:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>>
>>> Kostas Michalopoulos wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'd like such a function myself too, sometimes it is useful to access
>>>> the *real* native window regardless of the widgetset you use (GTK, Qt,
>>>> Carbon, etc).
>>>
>>> Definitely agreed. In my case so that a program can disable the screen
>>> saver whilst it's running using xdg-screensaver.
>>
>>
>> Maybe we can add LCLIntf.GetNativeHandle(Handle: HWND): PtrUInt ?
>
>
> +1 here. I had to resort to calling xwininfo, since it was the only way I
> could be absolutely confident that the ID was always correct irrespective of
> the combination of wm/desktop and display manager.
>
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