It might be best to create your own subclass of panel% that expects to have two children (a canvas% for drawing the background and an editor-canvas% for the text% object) that centers the editor-canvas% over the canvas%.
Robby On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Erich Rast <er...@snafu.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a bit of a strange requirement. What I need: a text% with > corresponding editor canvas centered on the screen filled with a > background color or image. Various tools and "overlays" might show up on > the background around the editor. > > Method 1: Make a frame% fullscreen and put vertical and horizontal > panels around the editor canvas. This works but has a few disadvantages > (imagine, e.g., that the background should be a continuous image). > > Method 2: Make two frames, one fullscreen for the background and one for > the editor canvas, where the latter has style '(float no-caption). The > result is very much like I want it (especially since the menu is in the > right place), but unfortunately the text% instance never gets the > keyboard focus. Is there a "hack" to force keyboard focus to the editor > embedded in a floating frame? (If it's not set to float the Gnome panel > on Linux will show up even if the background window is right behind it.) > > Or, should I rather stick with the first method? > > Or, is there a way to paint the background of a frame% directly or > overlay other controls over a canvas? > > Any solution needs to work on all platforms. > > > Best, > > Erich > > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
