Re: [ELISP] Detect focus on emacs.

[Tim X]

Michael Cadilhac <Michael.Cadilhac@lrde.epita.fr> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>>   I need to know if emacs has the global input focus, that's to say,
>>>   if emacs' window is the selected one in the wm.
>>
>> I don't think you can do that from elisp as of Emacs-22.
>> Patches are welcome to add the functionality, of course,
>
>     Ok, why not !
>
>     A   function   like  `window-focus-p',   that   will  check   with
>   XGetInputFocus(3x)/GetForegroundWindow(w32)  if  the current  window
>   has the input focus ?
>
>     So I'll  have a try. BTW,  is there guidelines  for emacs patches,
>   some must-know coding style or whatever like that somewhere ?
>
I think the problem you are having is because focus information is
handled at the X and window manager level - I don't think emacs knows
anything about the focus. Note that this is just a guess.

Tim

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