shell window activation

[Alexandre Julliard]

Martin Fuchs <martin-fuchs at gmx.net> writes:

> When trying to get my explorer clone to work on Wine, I found this way to make 
> it work in Wine's desktop mode. I am also not really sure if this is the only 
> or the best way to do it. But it works. Without this patch there exists this 
> problem: Whenever you click onto the desktop, the shell window is moved into 
> the foreground, in front of any other 'normal' window. Even the task bar 
> becomes invisible, because it is hidden behind the desktop.

If the problem is only with your app, then it can be fixed
there. Probably handling WM_MOUSEACTIVATE should do the trick. I also
think the SetWindowPos calls in SetShellWindow should be moved into
your app.

> On MS Windows there is used a region of shared memory mapped read-only from 
> the kernel space into user space of each process. This memory region contains 
> for example the information about the shell window. This way it is possible 
> to avoid a call into kernel, just to get the shell window. Do you think, such 
> a thing would also be possible in Wine?

At some point we'll probably do something like that yes.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com