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Making a modal SDL window ?
jeroen.clarysse


Joined: 22 Feb 2010
Posts: 69
Post Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 9:56 pm
I have an application that needs to display some SDL-loaded stuff, and read some SDL keystrokes when the user presses the “settings” button the main (non-SDL) window.

so I just make a new window :

window = SDL_CreateWindow(“Settings", SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED, SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED, dialog_w, dialog_h, SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN);

and make a small event loop that does the necessary polling.

this all works find, but I want this window to be front-most at all time until the settings are canceled or saved

is there a way to do this ?


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Making a modal SDL window ?
Jonny D


Joined: 12 Sep 2009
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Post Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:35 pm
I know that the Win32 EnableWindow() can be used for this, but I don't know that it would keep the subwindow on top alone.

Jonny D


On Friday, July 24, 2015, jeroen clarysse wrote:
Quote:
I have an application that needs to display some SDL-loaded stuff, and read some SDL keystrokes when the user presses the “settings” button the main (non-SDL) window.

so I just make a new window :

        window = SDL_CreateWindow(“Settings", SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED, SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED, dialog_w, dialog_h, SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN);

and make a small event loop that does the necessary polling.

this all works find, but I want this window to be front-most at all time until the settings are canceled or saved

is there a way to do this ?


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jeroen.clarysse


Joined: 22 Feb 2010
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Post Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2015 10:02 am
I think users will still be able to tab between windows or via utilities; On macOSX "cmd ~” would cycle between windows as well




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On 25 Jul 2015, at 01:35, Jonathan Dearborn wrote:

I know that the Win32 EnableWindow() can be used for this, but I don't know that it would keep the subwindow on top alone.

Jonny D


On Friday, July 24, 2015, jeroen clarysse wrote:
I have an application that needs to display some SDL-loaded stuff, and read some SDL keystrokes when the user presses the “settings” button the main (non-SDL) window.

so I just make a new window :

window = SDL_CreateWindow(“Settings", SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED, SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED, dialog_w, dialog_h, SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN);

and make a small event loop that does the necessary polling.

this all works find, but I want this window to be front-most at all time until the settings are canceled or saved

is there a way to do this ?


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