Re: tab's name question... (beginner)

On 2008-01-04, Jean Verdon <[email protected]> wrote:
> I plan to write a monitor for the status bar to be warned when a
> tab's name changes 

The "right" approach to something imporatnt happening in an application
is, of course, for the application to set the X UrgencyHint. When this
happens, Ion will display a box a corner of the screen indicating this,
as well as move (in the stock configuration) the window on top in the 
Mod1+K K listing. There also exists a statusbar script for listing such
windows [1]. (I'm afraid I don't know if it is up-to-date.)

You could, based on name change, also set the activity/urgency flag from
a script.

> Unfortunately, I don't know how to get those names ! 
> print(WClientWin.name(_)) only returns "WFrame<n>" and
> such. 

The object _ is bound to depends on the context. It is only
bound to WClientWin in bindings for client windows. _sub may
in such situation be bound to WGroupCW, but even this does not
get you the name yet... (WRegion.displayname isn't presently 
exported to the Lua side.)

However, I don't think you need to worry about the nesting of
objects in this case. If you hook on to region_notify_hook, and
check for name change messages, you should have the client window 
in question directly at hand, and can do what you need to do.
The aforementioned script [1] provides an example of using the
hook in question.


  [1]: http://iki.fi/tuomov/repos/ion-scripts-3/statusbar/statusbar_act.lua

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Tuomo