[PD-dev] small regression regarding window placement

[Roman Haefeli]

On Fre, 2013-02-01 at 14:46 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> This is sorted out in Pd-extended, if you want to compare.  I'm not sure what
> the exact changes are.  I think there is platform-specific logic to bump the
> window down if its in the menu bar.

In Pd-extended it is still set to '0' for non-Mac systems. 

Roman


> On 02/01/2013 02:05 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> > Drat..
> > 
> > On Macintoshes, if you ask for a window to open at Y location 0 the window
> > decorations end up above teh top of teh screen and you can never move the
> > window.
> > 
> > but anyhow I don't understand why the saved patch location gets overridden
> > by the default - I thought the default was only in effect when you made a
> > "new" canvas, not when you restored a saved one.  Something else must be going
> > wrong.
> > 
> > M
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 08:00:47PM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> >> Hi Miller
> >>
> >> The git-commit 3b876c63b3682701b569f30e144fea4b6bee9f84 does the
> >> following change:
> >>
> >> -#define GLIST_DEFCANVASYLOC 0
> >> +#define GLIST_DEFCANVASYLOC 50
> >>
> >> which causes my Pd not to show windows on the top of the screen anymore.
> >> The reason is that on my system $::windowframey is actually 44 and when
> >> saving a patch placed on the top left of the screen, next time I open
> >> the patch it is placed 6px below top ("0 44" from the pd file gets
> >> overwritten by "0 50"). 
> >>
> >> I don't actually understand the reason for changing GLIST_DEFCANVASYLOC,
> >> but would it cause any harm to reverse it?
> >>
> >> Roman 
> >>
> >>
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