Jaimos Skriletz <jai...@diamond.boisestate.edu> writes: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 02:55:47PM +0100, Piotr Isajew wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:37:03AM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: >> >> > I guess you are thinking of the largest free rectangular area. >> >> yes, that's right >> >> > I'm not aware of any such feature. >> >> I'll try to look for a solution myself. If I find something I'll >> post it to the list. > > The only thing similar I can think of is MinOverlapPlacement policy as > it does what you want (sort of). I cannot think of a simple way to mix > that placement policy (and replace your window) with trying to do this > smart maximization. But if you know a bit of C that is something you > can look up to see how it is done in terms of logic in determining the > bigest open rectangle. > > Just mentioning that placement policy because then you don't have to > rebuild the logic from nothing and you can use it as a starting place > to figuring out where the biggest rectangle is.
I haven't looked at MinOverlap, but Google offers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7245/puzzle-find-largest-rectangle-maximal-rectangle-problem -- Dan Espen
