Float on Frame or stay on top Topic is solved

[grommit100]

I am running Suse 9.x.
I know wxSTAY_ON_TOP is windows only.
So I found wxFLOAT_ON_FRAME.

This doesn't seem to work, in that it has no effect whatsoever.
I create my main frame, then create the smaller frame. I can bring the smaller frame to the front, but when I click on the fullscreen frame, the smaller one (that is supposed to be floating on it) disappears behind it.

The only way to fix this is to go down to the KDE toolbar, right click on the program label, and check "always on top". Then it works.

How can I do this programatically? Is there a certain order of operations that has to be followed?
I printed the address of the frame both when I created it, and when I passed it as the parent of the small frame. They are the same.

Help!

[ABX]

I know wxSTAY_ON_TOP is windows only.

It doesn't really help you much but it is worth to mention that wxSTAY_ON_TOP occurs in code of wxMSW, wxMGL and wxX11. So not exactly "windows only".

ABX

[grommit100]

The docs said windows only. They should probably be updated.
I guess that I should have mentioned that I am running the GTK version.

[chris]

From the changelog (ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/2.6.1/changes-2.6.1.txt) for 2.6.1:

wxGTK:

- Added support for wxSTAY_ON_TOP (GTK 2.4+).

So, if you are using wxWidgets 2.6.1 linked against GTK2 then at least wxSTAY_ON_TOP should work.

HTH, Chris

[grommit100]

wxWidgets is 2.6.0, GTK is 2.2-3

So..... I guess I will update later and see if everything gets fixed.
What's the latest stable release?

Thanks for the info.

Chris

[ABX]

What's the latest stable release?

http://www.wxwidgets.org/downld2.htm

ABX

[leio]

wxWidgets is 2.6.0, GTK is 2.2-3

It seems your gtk+ version is too ancient? (at least 2.4 required per changes.txt)

[grommit100]

I may not have gotten the gtk version right.
I did:
rpm -qa |grep gtk

and got some numbers that approached that.
Is there a better way to get the exact version number?

Thanks,

Grommit.

[chris]

Try "pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0". Alternatively have a look at /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/, there may be a subdirectory like "2.4.0" or such.

And yes, SUSE versions at notoriously out of date
That's why I switched my computers to Debian and Ubuntu.

Chris

[leio]

Is there a better way to get the exact version number?

If you have the development package of gtk+ installed, you should be able to
do

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pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0

or

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grep 'define GTK_M...._VERSION' /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkversion.h

If you don't, then the libraries long name should tell you the version also good enough:

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ls /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.*

I have /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.600.8 from which I can read out, that I have gtk+ version 2.6.8.
I believe the pattern has always been that for version 2.y.z the libname is libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.y00.z