Re: [Denemo-devel] Is there a way to have all pop-up windows be on top

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 09:44 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> I just updated the tarbal because it did not have my transcient window
> patch.

I've built stable-2.0.0 since you pushed your transient window patch and
it seems ok under Debian.
Have you built a mingw binary for it yet? If so I will see how it
behaves on windows.

Richard

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> Jeremiah
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> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Richard Shann
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 14:11 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
>         > Yes! That worked. Now the palettes behave as I would expect
>         them to.
>         > Should I push this patch to master and the stable branch?
>         
>         
>         I've pushed a fix to midi.c for the measure start signal when
>         entering
>         notes via MIDI as it was coming in one note too late. If you
>         push your
>         patch and create a trial tarball for 2.0.0 I will test it with
>         a clean
>         user.
>         
>         Richard
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>         > Jeremiah
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>         > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Richard Shann
>         > <address@hidden> wrote:
>         >         On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 11:32 -0500, Jeremiah Benham
>         wrote:
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>         >         >
>         >         > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:08 AM, Richard Shann
>         >         > <address@hidden> wrote:
>         >         >         On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 21:24 +0100, Richard
>         Shann
>         >         wrote:
>         >         >         > > I also noticed that the pallets will
>         "disappear"
>         >         behind
>         >         >         denemo if
>         >         >         > > denemo's main editing screen is
>         clicked on.
>         >         Shouldn't the
>         >         >         pallet
>         >         >         > > remain above but have the denemo main
>         edit
>         >         window have
>         >         >         focus?
>         >         >
>         >         >         Yes, I think it should, and indeed I see I
>         have put
>         >         >
>         >         >         gtk_window_set_keep_above  (GTK_WINDOW
>         >         (pal->window), TRUE);
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         > I created a patch that calls this function one
>         line before
>         >         this:
>         >         >
>         >
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> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/stable/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-set-transient-for
>         >         >
>         >         > I will see if it helps.
>         >
>         >         that looks good...
>         >
>         >         Richard
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>         >         > Jeremiah
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>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         >         in src/ui/palettes.c
>         >         >
>         >         >         but, as the Gtk documentation says, window
>         managers
>         >         can ignore
>         >         >         these
>         >         >         requests, which is what Apple is doing I
>         guess.
>         >         Looking at
>         >         >         this, I see a
>         >         >         bug - if you change to Undock a palette it
>         doesn't
>         >         acquire the
>         >         >         keep_above property until you re-start
>         Denemo. I
>         >         guess I need
>         >         >         another
>         >         >         call to that function on undocking ...
>         >         >
>         >         >         Richard
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