Hello, I’m trying to create a small bar-like window that displays some buttons and small graphs. But I want to make sure this window always follows the way Rhino’s main window moves (resizing, location change, etc). I’ve tried subscribing to RhinoEtoApp.MainWindow.LocationChanged. But it seems lik…

[image] yiliang: ’ve tried subscribing to RhinoEtoApp.MainWindow.LocationChanged. But it seems like this event is not triggered The RhinoMainWindow is a bit of a dummy currently. There are tickets to hook up its events however. [image] yiliang: (If following the Rhino main window is not …

Hi Callum, Thank you for your response! It is very helpful to know there is progress on RhinoMainWindow handling. I solved this problem by calling user32.dll. Since my target users are almost all Windows-based. I think this will be a quick solution. Although not perfectly: e.g. I cannot set my WPF…

@yiliang On Windows, you can parent your native window handle to Rhino using user32.dll This will make sure your window follows the Rhino MainWindow, but you’d still need to subscribe to RhinoView.Modified if you want it to stay in a fixed relative position. This shouldn’t affect transparency at a…

[image] Mariusz Hermansdorfer: @CallumSykes , it would be great to have this exposed directly in Eto including a MacOs counterpart. I’m very much in favour of this. I had a look in YouTrack and as there was no actual ticket to do this as I said, so I’ve created one. Eto: Implement m…

Hi Mariusz, Yes I indeed solved this through user32.dll SetParent. But I did experience window disappearance after setting transparency. If it helps, the XML code controling the window is: ResizeMode="NoResize" AllowsTransparency="True" Background="White" ShowInTaskbar="F…

Help with creating a window following Rhino window

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brian (Brian Gillespie) August 5, 2025, 9:41pm 7

RH-86166 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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Help with creating a window following Rhino window

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