[PD] 'relocate' message

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 3, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>
> On Jan 2, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --- On Sun, 1/3/10, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>> Subject: [PD] 'relocate' message
>>> To: "Pd List" <pd-list at iem.at>
>>> Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 12:00 AM
>>>
>>> Is anyone using the 'relocate' message to move/resize
>>> windows in Pd?  I ask because I want to simplify that
>>> code and the message itself in pd-gui-rewrite 0.43.
>>> Its currently a very strange format, and it no longer needs
>>> to be.
>>>
>>> Here's the only working example that I know of:
>>> http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/doc/additional/pd-msg/1.msg_and_patch/6.relocate_windows..pd?view=log
>>>
>>> The idea is to make the message like this:
>>>
>>> "relocate   WIDTHxHEIGHT+XLoc+YLoc"
>>>
>>> Currently its like this:
>>>
>>> "relocate   WIDTHxHEIGHT+0+0
>>> 0x0+XLoc+YLoc"
>>>
>>> .hc
>>
>> Hi Hans,
>>   Is there a reason the message can't simply be "relocate WIDTH  
>> HEIGHT
>> XLoc Yloc"?  Whether using pd-ext or vanilla, I've always thought  
>> it seems
>> really awkward to cram the coordinates into one big symbol.
>>
>> -Jonathan
>
>
> Hmm, that makes sense. I wonder if this should just have the same  
> syntax as 'canvas', so:
>
> relocate x1 y1 x2 y2
>
> Where x is the upper left corner, and y is the lower right corner.


So I restored the old relocate message, and added a new message which  
the GUI now uses a new message 'whxy'.  'whxy' stands for Width/Height/ 
X/Y.  Width/Height is the size of the window, and (x,y) is where the  
upper-left corner is located:

whxy width height xPosition yPosition
whxy 450 300 0 22

I am now thinking that perhaps I should make it called 'setbounds'  
after the old internal function, and make it mirror that:

     canvas_setbounds(x, xpos, ypos, xpos + width, ypos + height);

i.e. "setbounds Xleft Ytop Xright Ybottom"

.hc


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