Thank you so much!!
Using child_of() method didn't solve the problem, instead I hid all the windows
as you suggested and showed the required one. Now its fine:)
Thanks again for the help!
> On 19.05.2010, at 10:22, Lakshmi wrote:
> > Thanks for that detailed explanation :)..I had gotten really confused with
> > the concepts...
> >
> > What I'm doing now is I'm not creating subwindows, but instead I'm creating
> > windows outside the begin(); - end(); of the main window. I was almost able
> > to achieve all the requirements, but I'm facing one problem.
>
> This is FLTK 2 code, and I can only guess, but maybe this can
> help. Either don't make the windows non-modal, or use the FLTK 2
> child_of() method to achieve what you want.
>
> > A sample of my code is as below :
>
> most of the code snipped...
>
> > int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
> >
> > fltk::Window* main_data_window = new fltk::Window(15,100,400, 400,
> > "Sample App");
> > main_data_window->buttonbox(fltk::BORDER_BOX);
> > main_data_window->color((fltk::Color)56);
> > main_data_window->align(fltk::ALIGN_LEFT|fltk::ALIGN_CLIP);
> > main_data_window->begin();
> > main_data_window->hide();
>
> hiding the window is not necessary here.
>
> > main_data_window->end();
> >
> > Sample_Window* compass_window = new Sample_Window(16,125,250,200,1);
> > compass_window->border(0);
> > compass_window->align(fltk::ALIGN_TOP|fltk::ALIGN_LEFT);
> > compass_window->set_non_modal();
> > compass_window->hide();
>
> see above
>
> > compass_window->end();
> >
> > Sample_Window* ack_window = new Sample_Window(16,325,250,50,2);
> > ack_window->border(0);
> > ack_window->align(fltk::ALIGN_TOP|fltk::ALIGN_LEFT);
> > ack_window->set_non_modal();
> > ack_window->hide();
>
> see above
>
> > ack_window->end();
>
> The following lines establish a window hierarchy. You can probably
> work against it by adding one line (see below):
>
> > main_data_window->show();
> > compass_window->show();
>
> ack_window->child_of(main_data_window); // make it "child of" the
> main window
>
> Note: I'm not a FLTK 2 user, and maybe the syntax is wrong.
>
> > ack_window->show();
> >
> > compass_window->hide(); //if these two lines are commented, then both
> > the windows are visible,
> > compass_window->show();// but if they are executed, only compass_window
> > will be visible
> >
> > return fltk::run();
> > }
> >
> >
> > Depending on the user, I need to hide or show compass_window or
> > ack_window..but when I call show(), other windows whose's child_of_ is the
> > window I'm gonna show, also disappear..Is there any way I can overcome
> > this??
>
> If the above doesn't help, then you can hide both windows and then
> show the one you want, because this will (probably) create the correct
> window hierarchy again, but I'm not at all sure about this, because
> there might still be the child_of() relation. You may need to reset
> it or make it explicit, as suggested above.
>
> HTH,
> Albrecht
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