[Lazarus] Getting X Window handle ?

[zeljko]

On Tuesday 06 of November 2012 11:44:04 Kostas Michalopoulos wrote:
> Why not a TContol (or TWinControl) method?


TControl does not have handle, so if it's implemented in LCL it should be 
TWinControl.

zeljko

> 
> 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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