[PD] minor but persistent annoyances

[Phil Stone]

Aha!  The window is consistently growing by a few pixels, that's why I 
wouldn't notice it until some random time!   Thanks for clearing that up.

I couldn't find anything about this on a quick search of Tcl/Tk known 
issues, but it does seem like a likely source of the problem.

Phil

marius schebella wrote:
> no, that is a known problem which also appears under windows. but maybe 
> not under linux.
> every time you save the patch, the size gets increased by 1 or even 2 
> pixels... I think it is a tcl/tk problem.
> marius.
>
> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>   
>> Hallo,
>> Phil Stone hat gesagt: // Phil Stone wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> 2) The opening position of property dialogs, when repeatedly accessed, 
>>> "wander" down the screen, until eventually, they are nearly off the 
>>> bottom of the screen.  I'm guessing the behavior is partly intentional, 
>>> to enable tiling of multiply-opened windows, but it happens even when 
>>> only one property window is open at a time.
>>>       
>> 2), like 1), might be a Mac-specific issue, but I guess not. 
>>
>> Normally the real reasons is, that you've moved some patch elements
>> over the top or left border of the patcher window. Then Pd's
>> coordinate system, which has (0,0) in the upper left corner, tries to
>> reorganize itself to the new position of the upper left (0,0) point -
>> and it gets confused, which results in the Properties menu getting
>> displayed out of focus. 
>>
>> You can easily test this using attached patch. Simple fix: Never place
>> anthing beyond the upper or left border!
>>
>> Ciao
>>
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