Re: [MiNT] WM_REPOSED implementation

[Odd Skancke <ozk@atari.org>]

fre, 09,.12.2005 kl. 23.55 +0100, skrev olivier.landemarre@utbm.fr:
> Selon Xavier Joubert <xavier.joubert@free.fr>:
> 
> > Hi AES hackers,
> >
> >
> > Selon Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>:
> > > You can always add the option to tell the AES to send first MOVED and then
> > > SIZED to specific applications, but that will only work if XaAES can be
> > > externally configured on per-application basis (like Geneva can). I don't
> > > know if this is possible, as I can't get XaAES to run on my Milan yet.
> >
> > A good way of handling this (IMHO) would be, when AES needs to move and
> > resize a
> > window at once to send :
> > 1- a WM_SIZED message with the new coordinates (new X and new Y included),
> > then
> > 2- a WM_MOVED message with the same coordinates.

 A million ways to do this and achieve some kind of result. What I have
got now works, so why not use that?

> 
> I do exactly this actually except I prefer WM_MOVED before WM_SIZED, this what I
> do on CVS, and it work not so bad, in official 0.70 version I do only WM_MOVED.

 MyAES sources are available via CVS? Please let me know how to check
the sources out if they are! ;-)

> In your case I know application that don't like it, for example Qed and windows
> dialog in Windom, and there is other, I test only some softwares.
> In case of Qed, with WM_SIZED it will change with and height to have a mod8  or
> mod16 for this value, and recalculate sliders, then you put WM_MOVED with width
> and height you wan't but not new width and height that application wan't, Qed
> will put it directly but not change his size nor recalculate slider, this a
> very small problem in fact. For Windom case this is stronger because position
> will be good but size can be totaly wrong, because on WM_MOVED it not look for
> new size, so if window is bigger than dialog, other part of window will not
> redraw at all, because it correct size only on WM_SIZED. So prefer WM_MOVED
> before WM_SIZED.

 And all of these problem are solved by the method I use in XaAES.


 Best Regards,
Odd Skancke