Identify parent window of menus and tooltips

[Markus Kramer]

Thanks, that's exactly what I've been looking for.

Unfortunately, for GTK, it only seems to be set for menus and not for
tooltips. Weird, considering that GTK has been around for such a long
time.

2011/9/29 Marty Jack <martyj19 at comcast.net>:
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> On 09/29/2011 12:07 PM, Markus Kramer wrote:
>> Is there a way to identify the parent window of a menu or tooltip?
>> I know that menus and tooltips are top level windows. So their parent
>> would be the root window. I'm wondering if there is some other
>> property which tells me to what window they belong to?
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>> cheers, Markus
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> The WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property does this, but of course it is only as good as the toolkits who must be relied on to set it properly.  See the ICCCM.
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