Thanks for the hint, looks like they're doing something similar to what I want to do.
On 07/13/2011 07:12 PM, James Morris wrote: > 2011/7/13 Felix H. Dahlke <f...@ubercode.de>: >> Thanks for your answers. I did fool around with a popup, but it would >> also overlap other windows, transient or not. Furthermore, I need it to >> move relative to the window if that is moved. >> >> Maybe it's best if I tell you what I'm trying to do in particular: >> I'm working on something like a tooltip. However, I don't think I can >> use normal tooltips, since I need to position it manually (actually, I >> need it to move out of the way if the mouse cursor approaches it). >> >> A popup sounds like the right way to do this, but I need to somehow wire >> the popup's movement to the window's movement. Is there an easy way to >> do that? > > Take a look at PHAT fan sliders. These are sliders which > vertical-mouse-movement brings up a fan through which the user gains > more precision in the slider position. The fans are not bounded by any > window the widget is associated with. There might be some pointers in > there for how to do what you want, but note it's unmaintained code by > now, and also contains some deprecated code. > > http://phat.berlios.de/ > > James.
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