Re: Vertical centering an actor

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Michele <micxgx gmail com> wrote:
> On 5 July 2012 16:08, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Michele <micxgx gmail com> wrote:
>>> I'm facing some problems with what seemed to me a trivial thing at
>>> first glance. I just want to vertical align an actor to the center of
>>> the screen. This actor is added to Main.uiGroup and its size is
>>> variable. The actor at issue is the gnome shell dash that I moved out
>>> of the overview in the dash-to-dock extension.
>>>
>>> I've tried  to achieve this result in a lot of different ways but none
>>> of them is working properly.
>>>
>>> 1. Put the actor inside a container like St.Bin and use the y_align
>>> property to keep it at middle. This works but the extra void area
>>> above and below the child actor steal click events from the window
>>> actors. Applying a clip to the actor affects only it's visibility and
>>> not such events.
>>
>> Set the St.Bin's reactivity to false?
>
> This doesn't seem to work unfortunately. If a window is below a non
> reactive actor I still can't click it. Should clicks arrive to the
> window in such instance?

Yes. The chrome should track reactivity and shape the COW accordingly.

-- 
  Jasper