use-ide-parent-window

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Package: ide

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Allegro CL version 8.0
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use-ide-parent-window

Arguments: ide-configuration

An IDE configuration option that returns whether the IDE uses a parent window (with all other IDE windows contained within it) rather than a non-parent owner window (with its owned IDE windows floating freely on the screen). A true value indicates a parent window, while nil indicates an owner window.

The initial value on GTK is true, while on Windows it is nil. These are the only options that we currently support, due to certain problems with the other option on each platform.

On GTK a parent window is used because support for non-child owned windows is not adequate in the X window system. If you change the value to nil on GTK, things would generally work, but other applications could become intermingled in the window occlusion stack with the various IDE windows, and there would be a separate taskbar button and alt-tab choice for each owned IDE window (with most window managers).

On Windows an owner window is used because a child window cannot have a menu-bar in Microsoft Windows, and so a form window would not show its menu-bar if it were a child window. If this is not a concern, you might try changing the value of this configuration option to true on Windows, though we have not tested that option on Windows sufficiently to officially support it at this time.

In either case, the function main-ide-window will return the owner window of the various IDE tool windows. When an IDE parent window is used, the main-ide-window will be an instance of the ide-child-window class; this window is the frame-child of the IDE parent window, which is an instance of the ide-parent-window class. When an IDE owner window is used, the main-ide-window will be the IDE owner window itself, which is an instance of the ide-owner-window class. The function top-ide-window always returns the topmost IDE window.