Re: transient windows on win32

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> [...] On X11 the color selector dialog also is only decorated with a
> "close" button, it can't be minimized or maximized. Any idea how to
> achieve this on Win32, too?

The code I use for dialogs under win32 does this using 
gdk_window_set_decorations.  The actual code that I use looks something 
like this (pygtk sorry):

    def _set_dialog_realized(w, decor):
        w.window.set_decorations(decor)

    def set_dialog(window, parent,
                   resize=True, minimize=False, maximize=False,
                   menu=False):
        resize = window.get_resizable()
        maximize = maximize and resize
        decor = gtk.gdk.DECOR_TITLE | gtk.gdk.DECOR_BORDER
        if resize:   decor |= gtk.gdk.DECOR_RESIZEH
        if minimize: decor |= gtk.gdk.DECOR_MINIMIZE
        if maximize: decor |= gtk.gdk.DECOR_MAXIMIZE
        if menu:     decor |= gtk.gdk.DECOR_MENU

        window.set_transient_for(parent)
        window.set_position(gtk.WIN_POS_CENTER_ON_PARENT)

        window.connect('realize', _set_dialog_realized, decor)
        if window.flags() & gtk.REALIZED:
            _set_dialog_realized(window, decor)

It probably goes without saying that it would be nice if gtk would do 
some of this itself.  Some of this is really the job of the window 
manager, but unfortunately windows only comes with one, and it's not all 
that great :-)

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Tim Evans
Applied Research Associates NZ
http://www.aranz.co.nz/