[PD] patch size

[carmen]

On Tue Jul 25, 2006 at 03:12:03PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
> 
> >Yes, this is one of the biggest annoying things about OS X.  The
> >window resizing is limited to the bottom right corner of the window,
> >so if the patch is tall enough to have the bottom off screen, you're
> >screwed without editing the file in a text editor.
> >AAAAARRRRRRGGGGG!!!!
> 
> No. Maximize the patch using the green button. This normally brings the bottom-right corner into the screen.
> 
> You're screwed if the window position makes the title bar offscreen, and then you have to edit the .pd file, or edit pd.tk so that it never 
> sets window positions (just delete the line that says "wm geometry").
> 
> On Linux you normally have some better shortcuts, but this only works if *some* part of the window is on-screen. Else you may be able to 
> right-click on the dock entry (at least KDE does it; I don't have GNOME at hand so I can't try)
> 
> Pd could be fixed in order to prevent offscreen windows. This can be done by replacing the aforementioned "wm geometry" line by something else 
> which I'll leave as an exercise to the reader...:)

i commited a fix for this in devel_0_38 or so, and put a patch up on the patch tracker for it. but it was part of a larger patch that wasnt accepted by miller, and got orphaned in the move to devel_0_39.

you can just ask tk for the screen dimensions and resize the window accordingly..