[PD] patch size

[Chuckk Hubbard]

On 7/25/06, carmen <_ at whats-your.name> wrote:
> 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..

Is that simpler than opening a patch in a text editor?