| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
Why do windows accept events on borders? I create a window with a border, and I define a cursor for it, and accept events (like MB1 down) which occur in it. In my case, I want to draw stuff into the window, but the border is not part of it that's just there to make it look nice (zero width borders are not acceptable since I need a border there). How can I get around this problem - I can ignore events which occur there (which is what I do now), but the cursor will have changed, so It looks like you should get something, and if you get nothing (event ignored) it will be confusing to the user. Ya know what I mean? Anyone have any solutions? Thanks. -Joanthan
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| 1599.1 | FLUME::dike | Thu Oct 19 1989 08:32 | 4 | ||
Put another window underneath which has the needed border and ignore events from that window. Jeff | |||||
| 1599.2 | I couldn't get that to work | EPIK::J_JOSEPH | Living in the Pasture | Thu Oct 19 1989 15:29 | 18 |
> Put another window underneath which has the needed border and ignore events from > that window. Well, let me be explicit. I'm dealing with a Scroll window with both H and V scroll bars and a work window. I don't want to get events on the borders of the work window, but I do want to be able to see the borders. I've tired to do what you say, but I can't seem to get the second window "underneath". It always seems to cover the scroll bars. When I resie the scroll window larger than the size of the work window, I want to be able to see the borders, but not get events on them. It seems that no matter how I arrange the widgets in the UIL file, the extra window obscures the scroll bars. Are there any other suggestions - or a suggestion on how to make the "extra window" idea work? -Jonathan | |||||
| 1599.3 | FLUME::dike | Thu Oct 19 1989 16:50 | 8 | ||
Have you tried XLowerWindow(XtWindow(bottom_widget))? It sounded like you were doing raw Xlib. Widgets may have their own ideas about what they like their borders to be. By "work widget", do you mean window widget? The window widget, of all the widgets, should allow you to set it up any way you want. Jeff | |||||