Dock windows

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Is it possible to dock a window to a corner, like the north west corner in my case

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Nope. Do you have a motivating example?

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I just have a banner i want to open/close on a push of the home button and i want it to be placed in the north west corner. I can place it based on the size of the windows, but if the resolution of the screen if larger or smaller, it is placed improperly

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Do you want it overlapping your other windows? If so, docking isn’t what you want.

If you’re placing something in the upper left, it shouldn’t have a problem with screen resolution. Upper left corner is (0,0) - thats the origin of the coordinate scheme.

Am I missing something?

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Yeah i meant north east, or upper right corner. I do want it on top of all the windows. This si for a banner, which has things like time, user, and some static buttons. i also have a window which is docked south for the static nav buttons.

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You can put it in the north east when you open it like this:

win = fpmi.nav.openWindow("MyWindow") app = win.parent win.setLocation(app.width-win.width,0)

The trick here is that a window’s “parent” is the project workspace itself.

Hope this helps,

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Ok, i put this in an internalFrameOpen event for my main window

try: win = fpmi.gui.getWindow("Banner") except ValueError: win = fpmi.nav.openWindow("Banner") app = win.parent def later(app = app, win = win): win.setLocation(app.width-win.width,0) fpmi.system.invokeLater(later)
Thanks for the suggestion Carl

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Carl, I have a problem with this script. It is on another window that has the banner on top of it. I am trying to make the trend visible in the banner. How do i reference items in another window in jython?

def rtTrendOpen(event): import fpmi win = fpmi.gui.getWindow('Banner') chart = win.getComponent('RT Trend') banner = win.getComponent('Banner') #banner.visible = 0 #chart.visible = 1 #chart.Tag = event.source.Tag

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You don’t call .getComponent() directly on the window. You need to get into the root container first, like this

def rtTrendOpen(event): import fpmi win = fpmi.gui.getWindow('Banner') chart = win.rootContainer.getComponent('RT Trend') banner = win.rootContainer.getComponent('Banner') #banner.visible = 0 #chart.visible = 1 #chart.Tag = event.source.Tag