Yes, though I only played around with it a bit. The window can be either a normal top-level window (in which case the window manager tries to manage it, especially in the tiling situation) or a popup. It seems popups want to be topmost, though I'm not certain about it.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > this seems wrong. surely you can create a top-level window that has no > window decorations. then you can just position that however you like. is > the problem with managing the z-order? > -darin > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Basically, what I wrote was a quick hack just because I was tired of >> not seeing where links go, and someone will need to think about harder >> what exact kinds of behaviors we want. >> >> I don't exactly understand how it works on windows, except that the >> status bubble can slide out of the main window which (at least in the >> X world) means it's not a child of the top-level window. On X I don't >> believe (though I'm no expert) we can control new windows to enough >> degree to make the positioning of a new window in a way that doesn't >> make it janky. >> >> Because of this, I suspect the right way to do it is to make the >> status bubble a child of the main window, and drop the "pop out of the >> main window" behavior, or to special-case it when you move the mouse >> over it but pop it back in if you start dragging the window. In any >> case, what I have done (a popup window that appears topmost) is not >> what I think we want. >> >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Avi Drissman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Evan— >> > >> > I was looking at StatusBubbleGtk to get some thoughts about the Mac one, >> > and >> > I saw your note that you were probably taking the wrong approach. What >> > do >> > you mean by that? In what sense? >> > >> > Avi >> > >> >> >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
