[pygtk] raise reminder window

[Ryan Krauss]

This mostly works.  It makes the window flash in the toolbar, but
doesn't raise it above non-pygtk windows on my screen.

On 3/28/06, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc at inescporto.pt> wrote:
> On Ter, 2006-03-28 at 10:13 -0500, Ryan Krauss wrote:
> > I am trying to learn pygtk and use it to write an application that
> > will pop up a reminder window for me every 5, 10, or 15 minutes or
> > whatever.  I would like this window to raise itself to the to the
> > center of the current workspace so that it is visible.  I am having
> > trouble learning how to do this.  I see that gtk.gdk.Window has a
> > raise method, but I am trying to raise the top level gtk.Window.  It
> > would also be o.k. to create a dialog and pop it up each time, but my
> > first attempt at this seemd to have threading issues.
> >
> > Attached is my modification of an example from Beginning Python about
> > pygtk and threading.  My modification is lines 75-93.  They basically
> > use a seperate thread to do the wait timer that I would need, but the
> > dialog doesn't work very well.
>
>   Use gtk.Window.present_with_time.  The "time" parameter to use should
> be event.time of the gdk event you're currently handling, if any, or
> zero, if not called from an event handler.
>
>   Regards.
>
> --
> Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
> <gjc at inescporto.pt> <gustavo at users.sourceforge.net>
> The universe is always one step beyond logic.
>
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