Re: Automatically raising the Speedbar frame

[Eric Ludlam]

>>> "Raffael Herzog" <devnull@raffael.ch> seems to think that:
>Hi,
>
>I really like Speedbar very much, but it has one major
>disadvantage: Whenever I switched to a different
>application, Speedbar stays in the background, when I
>switch back to Emacs (it isn't really useful in the
>background... :)
>
>Is there a way to automatically raise the speedbar frame
>whenever I activate an Emacs frame?
>
>I already tried:
>
>(defadvice handle-switch-frame (after raise-speedbar)
>  (if speedbar-frame
>      (raise-frame speedbar-frame)))
>(ad-activate 'handle-switch-frame)
>
>but this didn't help much because handle-switch-frame
>doesn't get called when I re-activate the same frame that
>had the focus before, which is normally the case.
>
>Maybe I just missed the right hook?

You can change speedbar-frame-parameters to add auto-raise to t.  This
will cause the frame to auto-raise when you pass the mouse over it.

Otherwise I'm not too familiar with various frame raise/lower hooks.
I've looked into problems similar to this but didn't figure anything
out.

Eric