Re: [ELISP] Detect focus on emacs.

[Michael Cadilhac]

Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com> writes:

> Michael Cadilhac <Michael.Cadilhac@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
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>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
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>>>>   I need to know if emacs has the global input focus, that's to say,
>>>>   if emacs' window is the selected one in the wm.
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>>> I don't think you can do that from elisp as of Emacs-22.
>>> Patches are welcome to add the functionality, of course,
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>>     Ok, why not !
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>>     A   function   like  `window-focus-p',   that   will  check   with
>>   XGetInputFocus(3x)/GetForegroundWindow(w32)  if  the current  window
>>   has the input focus ?
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>>     So I'll  have a try. BTW,  is there guidelines  for emacs patches,
>>   some must-know coding style or whatever like that somewhere ?
>>
> I think the problem you are having is because focus information is
> handled at the X and window manager level - I don't think emacs knows
> anything about the focus. Note that this is just a guess.

  It seems that my answer is now a bunch of lost bytes in the cruel
  world of usenet.

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> Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com> writes:
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> > Michael Cadilhac <Michael.Cadilhac@lrde.epita.fr> writes:
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> >> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
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> >>>>   I need to know if emacs has the global input focus, that's to say,
> >>>>   if emacs' window is the selected one in the wm.
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> >>> I don't think you can do that from elisp as of Emacs-22.
> >>> Patches are welcome to add the functionality, of course,
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> >>     Ok, why not !
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> >>     A   function   like  `window-focus-p',   that   will  check   with
> >>   XGetInputFocus(3x)/GetForegroundWindow(w32)  if  the current  window
> >>   has the input focus ?
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> >>     So I'll  have a try. BTW,  is there guidelines  for emacs patches,
> >>   some must-know coding style or whatever like that somewhere ?
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> > I think the problem you are having is because focus information is
> > handled at the X and window manager level - I don't think emacs knows
> > anything about the focus. Note that this is just a guess.
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>   Yep, I  think the problem  is here. But  now the question is,  is it
> worth doing a `frame-focus-p' compatible with X and W32 (and more ?)?
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>   As said, It'll be a great  thing for modules wanting to do something
> iif the user is not concentrated on emacs.
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>   I'm wondering if this patch has to be more than X/W32 compatible; In
> fact, I don't know if mac's cocoa is managed in the same way.
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  By the  way, the proposal  of rgb provides  a nicer way to  use this
functionality, but I'm not sure  this is really possible to have focus
hooks on a w32 system, isn't it ?


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