trying to draw off-screen

[Bill Medland]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Claude Batista" <jcb at macadamian.com>
To: "Bill Medland" <billmedland at look.ca>
Cc: <wine-devel at winehq.com>
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" <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
> >
> >
>
>
>
Bill