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Posted: **07 Aug 2008 18:45**

Hy,

i am in a situation, when I play the video (under ubuntu) from FF plugin in fullscreen mode (X code will be called). I get the pointer to the fullscreen window which is apparently the subwindow created after function call "CreateWindow()" in xcommon.c

I want to grab the parent of this video window, whenever I do XQueryTree() to get the childList of this window's parent, I get the segfault.

Is there anyway to get the handle on firefox window when video is in fullscreen mode.

Thanks

Posted: **07 Aug 2008 22:38**

What I need is to get the Window Id of the browser in case of playing vlc as plugin OR the window id of vlc-player in case I am playing video as in normal player. The code to get the IDs (root,children,parent) depends on the location of function call XQueryTree()....I dont know where I can get the appropriate information ....i am rightnow calling this in ToggleFullScreen where I am getting a BadWindow error ...that obviously means the window after going into fullscreen maybe loses its parent window-id....but i am not sure yet....
Is there any other way I can get the WindowId of the parent of fullscreen video window ???

any feedback would be appreciated.

//xcommon.c
static void ToggleFullScreen ( vout_thread_t *p_vout )
{
Atom prop;
XEvent xevent;
mwmhints_t mwmhints;
XSetWindowAttributes attributes;

#ifdef HAVE_XINERAMA
int i_d1, i_d2;
#endif
p_vout->b_fullscreen = !p_vout->b_fullscreen;
if( p_vout->b_fullscreen )
{
...............
...............
............... //finishes making fullscreen
Window parent;
Window root;
Window *child_list;
unsigned int num_children;
Window child;
int i;
Display * dpy = p_vout->p_sys->p_display;
XGetInputFocus(dpy, &child, &i);
XQueryTree(dpy, child, &root, &parent, &child_list, &num_children); //BADWINDOW
if(parent==root)
return child;
while(parent!=root)
{
child = parent;
if (!XQueryTree(dpy, child, &root, &parent, &child_list,
&num_children))
printf("Can't query window tree.");
}
}else{
}

Posted: **11 Aug 2008 09:57**

i want the video player window to appear on top of Fullscreen video. How can I do that ??

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