[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Bugs-2933148 ] [pd-gui-rewrite] 'vis 1' to canvas moves window

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:10 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> SourceForge.net wrote:
>>
>> Message:
>> Unfortunately, the shifting does happen on Pd-vanilla, just less  
>> so.  There
>> doesn't seem to be a way in Tcl/Tk to measure the size of the  
>> window frame
>> of X11 windows.  Different window managers will have different  
>> sizes of
>> window frames.  In 0.43 it was moving a lot since it didn't take into
>> account the window frame at all.  I added the measurements for
>> GNOME/metacity, which should work well for a wide range of setups.
>> Hopefully someone can figure out how to actually measure window  
>> frame.
>>
>
> btw, have you had a look at the hack in the ::pdwindow::set_layout  
> proc
> to measure the window decorations (though you deleted the code again)?

Yes, did you test that code? It only works on Windows from my tests  
and the docs I read.  Something like that should exists for Windows,  
but that would go elsewhere, like init_for_platform.

.hc

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