Re: GtkWindow from window ID

[Paolo Molaro <lupus lettere unipd it>]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 06:38:26PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 1999, Adrian Hosey wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a way to take an existing window (via its window ID) and "cast" 
> > it into a GtkWindow? Specifically I'd like to be able to use the
> > gnome_win_hints_* functions on existing windows, those windows may not
> > even be using GTK. 
> 
> Nope, there's no way to do that. You can wrap an X window with a GdkWindow 
> using gdk_window_foreign_new() (gdk/gdkx.h) and then cut-and-paste the
> code from gnome_win_hints_* maybe. But then you may as well just write
> your own Xlib versions...

You may want to #include gdkprivate.h and use gdk_window_lookup(XID)
to get the GdkWindow if the window was created with gdk.
This is gdk private stuff, however, and may change in the future.

lupus

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