Is there a way to know if the parent patch windows of an abstraction has the focus?

I know [active] from cyclone but It will only notify that the main patch has the focus...
[iemguts/receivecanvas 1] gives position and size values as "setbounds" when we move the parent windows also but nothing about windows focusing.

Thanks

@60htz This will highlight the focused window........ but is probably not what you are looking for.
highlight.zip Vanilla/extended..... but only for windows!

Messages can be sent to the focused window, but getting stuff back is very difficult.
@Monetus might be able to help you with a plugin.......
David.

Thanks @whale-av, I know this trick also on OSX with sys_gui but I need to have the focus notification in a patch... yes I guess this is a work about tcl..

@60htz What are you looking for...... something like a toggle that is true when the window is focused, and false when not? Does it matter that you "see" it? or can it just "be" but unseen?
David.

Yes, I wanted to have O or 1 value inside an abstraction so when the focus is on parent windows, something is triggered from an abstraction.

The idea was to avoid fooling students dealing with too many opened patches at the same time, and rendering all geos at same gemwin... every get lost quickly.

An another idea would be to reduce the number of opened patches with checking if a windows is already open and raise it... but that's another topic I started here

You can do this by putting [receivecanvas] inside the abstraction (with no argument). It will send a "map 1" message when the abstraction is click-opened, and "menuclose" when it is closed. Presumably, other methods of opening/closing will yield "vis 1/0".

Thanks, I see map notification when the abstraction is opened with latest iemguts from deken in OSX. But I don"t want to open the abstraction, only know if the parent has the focus.

Oh I see, sorry for misunderstanding.

I can't think of any way of doing this immediately. Maybe check out the hcs?

You could sort of hack it by putting this inside every window to tell which one was clicked on last: