Re: Gtk::window.present() doesn't always present

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 7/14/06, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com> wrote:
> I think the question from Harm really is about how you can show a window
> without an event (or atleast with an event from an external process), and I
> have been wondering the same thing too (if it is at all possible).  As I
> read it he wants to present a window when something is received through an
> IPC message queue.  - In my world this is isomorphic to "how do I present a
> window from a dbus callback?"

My questions were there to point out that you got a dbus callback for
a reason, most likely because of a user interaction with another
application.  Information from such user interaction events should be
passed along to the application being requested to handle it.

> Admittedly I have not tried sending the the event.time via dbus to the
> application which should do the window presenting (which then could do a
> present_with_time with the given timestamp). Does this have any chance of
> working?

Yes.  :)