On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 12:15 +0100, Mirko Hansen wrote: > Hey guys, > > I just tried to fix the multi-screen bug mentioned here: > http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=23738 ... but I > think we won't be able to fix this. The problem is, that always after > creating a window the proc moveinscreen is called that places the > window on the primary screen again. So we need to get the whole > geometry of all screens. Therefor [winfo screenwidth .] is useless, it > always returns the width of the primary screen, independant of where > the window to check is positioned. A call of [wm maxsize .] returns > the geometry of all screen, but we only get the complete geometry, not > only of one screen, and we don't get where the other screen(s) is/are > positioned. It always returns the absolute size, but if the second > screen is positioned left beside the primary screen, we would need > negative coordinates to successfully move a window on that screen, but > this information doesn't tell us anything about that. The other > problem would be that we get "dead corners" in the case that the > screens have different resolutions: The [wm maxsize .] merges the > screens into one big rectangle, so there will be at least one corner > that no screen can display. So we need another solution or we are > unable to fix that bug. Does anyone have an idea how to be able to get > the resolution and position of the other screens? I only found one > article about that problem telling that tcl doesn't seem to support it > and it uses some kind of dirty hack to detect how many screens are > used but it doesn't really help. One way would be to let the user > manually enter his screens and the fitting geometry or letting him > turn off the moveinscreen-proc. Both ways are very user-unfriendly and > not really safe but it would be a last resort ...
What about checking if it is in the chatwindow first? If it is, don't move it. Sander ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
