[pygtk] raise reminder window

[Ryan Krauss]

No, I am running Gnome on Ubuntu Breezy Linux.

On 3/28/06, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc at inescporto.pt> wrote:
> On Ter, 2006-03-28 at 13:18 -0500, Ryan Krauss wrote:
> > This mostly works.  It makes the window flash in the toolbar, but
> > doesn't raise it above non-pygtk windows on my screen.
>
>   Yes, that makes sense.  Since GNOME 2.12 or 2.10 or similar the window
> manager makes a distinction between windows appearing in response to a
> user command, like pressing a button, or windows appearing
> asynchronously, like an instante message popup.  In the latter case, it
> would happen as you describe.  There might be another API to make it
> work in the first case, I'm not sure.  In any case, I'm sure Elijah
> Newren announced something to this respect in gnome desktop devel list,
> so if you search the archives you might find something useful there.
>
>   Regards.
>
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> > >
> --
> 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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