Is anyone able to help with this? Regards Mario
Am Dienstag, den 06.10.2009, 23:25 +0200 schrieb Mario Kemper: > Hi there, > > I'm the developer of Shutter (a screenshot taking application written > with gtk2-perl). > After upgrading to the latest versions of Gnome (2.28) and Gtk+ during > the last days I've discovered that the client-side window mechanism is > "breaking" some of the functionalities of Shutter. > > There is a function called "Section" that allows you to capture one of > the subwindows of a foreign window by moving the mouse over it. > > The "Section" function queries the window tree information by calling an > xlib function, XQueryTree. I know that before Gtk+ 2.18 most of the > widgets had a corresponding xwindow. The information about the > subwindows were used to detect them and draw a rectangle around them > that illustrated their geometry. > > If I understand the changes correctly this means that the XServer no > longer knows about the subwindow hierarchy of a Gtk+ window and I can't > use the XQueryTree function any longer, right? > I know that is possible to query the children of a GDK-window, but this > works only if your own application created that window. Shutter needs to > get the children of foreign toplevel windows. > > Does anyone have an idea on how this problem could be solved? > Maybe with the help of AT-SPI? > Accerciser is using it (the python bindings) to query the structure of > toplevel windows: > http://live.gnome.org/GAP/PythonATSPI > > But I would love to see a solution that I can implement with perl ;-) > > Thank you very much for your help. I hope I've explained everything > clearly enough. > > Regards > Mario > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
