Re: FVWM: Fvwm IconBoxes patch version 1.1

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_bae.bellcore.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:19:25 -0400

Tim Phipps <timbo_at_computer.hpl.hp.com> writes:
> >
> > Version 1.1 of the "Iconboxes patch" is available at:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.hpc.uh.edu/pub/fvwm/version-2/unofficial_patches
> >
> > This version includes control of the icon fill direction.
> > --
> > Dan Espen Phone: (732) 699-5570
>
> I have a problem with the IconGrid and IconFill styles, I use Style
> * IconBox 55 6 314 874, IconGrid 1 96, IconFill Bottom Left yet the
> first icons are placed at the left hand edge of the screen (they
> should be 55 from the left edge) with a left-edge more than 55 they
> start to get placed some distance from the left-edge but are off by
> about 50-60 pixels. I've looked at the patch and I can't spot an
> error but it looks like it's placing the right hand edge of the
> icons in the grid. If I change to IconFill Bottom Right it all
> works fine.

Sounds like there will be a version 1.2.

> Good work anyway,

Good, but apparently not perfect.

> Timbo.
>
> P.S. I won't ask for it but sooner or later someone will: how about
>
> IconFill Left Bottom
> to place icons in columns?

Of course you can get columns by using multiple narrow but tall
iconboxes. I've gone this far, I guess I should deal with columns
more directly.

> P.P.S. Have you really done TGSFR in this patch?

Well, I rewrote all the style code, and its now a tiny fraction of its
original size. Plus, I think adding a style bit flag can be done in
under 10 lines of code. (I didn't count anything, I'm just trying to
say it should be simple.)

> --

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