trying to draw off-screen

[Bill Medland]

Does anyone know who constrains a window to be on the screen?

Our application, in order to minimise flicker, does the hard work with a
container application deliberately positioned well off-screen (enormous
negative coordinates I think).

This works under Windows.

However under WINE the initial window appears in the top right corner of my
screen (I think I've seen it appear in other corners too on other
computers).  It then resizes , keeping the same top left corner (with parts
of the window off-screen) before correctly repositioning itself into the
middle of the screen.

Does anyone know which code is doing the initial positioning in the top
right corner?  Is this deliberate?

Bill

[Jean-Claude Batista]

Hi,

Which window manager are you using ? Often it is the window manager that
reposition the window on the top right if the coordinates of the window are
beyond the screen. Not Wine.

-- JcB
Macadamian Technologies.

---Original Message -----
From: "Bill Medland" 
To: "wine-devel" 
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:28 PM
Subject: trying to draw off-screen
> Does anyone know who constrains a window to be on the screen?
>
> Our application, in order to minimise flicker, does the hard work with a
> container application deliberately positioned well off-screen (enormous
> negative coordinates I think).
>
> This works under Windows.
>
> However under WINE the initial window appears in the top right corner of

my
> screen (I think I've seen it appear in other corners too on other
> computers).  It then resizes , keeping the same top left corner (with

parts
> of the window off-screen) before correctly repositioning itself into the
> middle of the screen.
>
> Does anyone know which code is doing the initial positioning in the top
> right corner?  Is this deliberate?
>
> Bill

[Bill Medland]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Claude Batista" 
To: "Bill Medland" 
Cc: 
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: trying to draw off-screen
> Hi,
>
> Which window manager are you using ? Often it is the window manager that
> reposition the window on the top right if the coordinates of the window

are
> beyond the screen. Not Wine.

That's what I was afraid of.

(I get a bit confused as to what is the window manager and what is the
desktop but) KDE3 I guess.
> -- JcB
> Macadamian Technologies.
>
> ---Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Medland" 
> To: "wine-devel" 
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:28 PM
> Subject: trying to draw off-screen
> > Does anyone know who constrains a window to be on the screen?
> >
> > Our application, in order to minimise flicker, does the hard work with a
> > container application deliberately positioned well off-screen (enormous
> > negative coordinates I think).
> >
> > This works under Windows.
> >
> > However under WINE the initial window appears in the top right corner of
>
> my
> > screen (I think I've seen it appear in other corners too on other
> > computers).  It then resizes , keeping the same top left corner (with
>
> parts
> > of the window off-screen) before correctly repositioning itself into the
> > middle of the screen.
> >
> > Does anyone know which code is doing the initial positioning in the top
> > right corner?  Is this deliberate?
> >
> > Bill

Bill