On 24 May 2002 20:04:30 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>
> Cameron Simpson <cs_at_zip.com.au> writes:
> > On 19:06 24 May 2002, Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com> wrote:
>
> > | I don't normally like MIDI applications but in the case of the
> > | browser, it seems like the best way to go.
> >
> > MIDI? I only know the electronic music acronym. What do you mean here?
>
> Gee, I thought MIDI was the right term for applications that
> managed subwindows themselves, like StarOffice 5.2 or Visual C++,
> but I can't find anything to confirm that with Google.
> I must be loosing my mind...
It is MDI (Multiple Document Interface) as opposed to SDI (Single DI).
> You seem to want to script and control the whole process.
> If the windows have unique names, like the Slashdot one
> will, you might consider using FvwmEvent to watch the window
> being created and move it where you want.
The problem here is that such script should return the final coordinates
before the window is mapped, not after.
If we would have such mechanism using module events, it is easy to code
a simple module in perl - FvwmPlacement - that implements all kinds of
placements and checks that a window is not out of screen and so on:
UnderCursorPlacement - should be done anyway
CenterPlacement - should be done anyway, because I need this :)
AvoidFocusPlacement - suggested by Cameron Simpson
AvoidCursorPlacement - the same
ConstantPlacement - the same
and other placement policies per window...
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Fri May 24 2002 - 19:25:57 BST