trying to draw off-screen

[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" <billmedland at look.ca>
To: "wine-devel" <wine-devel at winehq.org>
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
>
>