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Old 09-07-2006
Finding A Window
Hi,
I m trying to find a window in unix environment. Is there any method like

FindWindow(), SetForeGroundWindow() as in case of Windows. I have tried a

lot. But I failed. I have to do it without X Windows.


If anybody knows plzzzzzzzzz reply me.




Nihar...
# 2  
Old 09-07-2006
UNIX is not Windows. UNIX by itself doesn't even have a window environment. If you're looking for UNIX API calls for window management, you're never going to find them.

The one thing you've specifically excluded, X, is exactly where you need to look. When it comes to a GUI, there's nothing beneath it to talk to -- X is the thing that everything talks to when they create, destroy, move, and update windows, the thing which does all the drawing, knows where everything is, knows the window order, etc. Below it there's nothing but raw video drivers.

(Mostly X. There are a bunch of alternatives, some of which are still variations on X.)

Even all-singing-all-dancing GUI environments like KDE, IceWM and Gnome use X; what they amount to is convenience libraries. X can be used purely by itself even when running either of those.
Last edited by Corona688; 09-07-2006 at 04:33 AM..
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Old 09-07-2006
You might find the source for xse helpful.
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# 4  
Old 09-07-2006
Care to use the QT framework ? See this links for an idea
http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-intere...ad00088-0.html
http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-intere...ad00091-0.html
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