Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > >>>>File: elisp, Node: Window Internals >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Thanks, I did not know this was available. Then the windows in each >>>frame can be seen as a tree using those fields you mentioned. But what >>>should then be done with this? What should the mapping between this >>>tree and the visual view be? It looks to me that the level in the tree >>>alone will not give any useful hint. The topology (ie whether the >>>splitting was horizontal or vertical) must be taken into account, but >>>maybe the level in the tree can be used too? It actually looks a bit >>>difficult... >>> >>> >> >>Well, it's only available to the C programmer... >> >> > I noticed when I tried to implement the algorithm I suggested. However > it should be possible to find the split tree with a bit of work. It > may fail when window borders meat each like a + so to say, but maybe > trying to change the window sizes can resolve such cases. So I was > wrong I think. It is not absolutely necessary to have the access to > those hchild etc. > > I guess you are counting the children in each sub tree (something > similar to what I suggested though you may not have read that)? Maybe > it should be good with some weights for a user to customize? > > Finding the split tree is a bit tricky to say the least. You have to > imagine a split tree and start to pick up the windows from the leafs > and work upwards. Maybe thinking in sets helps? There are certain > cases where you can not know how the split tree actually was (like > three windows above each other), but from a user perspective those are > perhaps better handled as a node with three childs whether that is the > case in the internal split tree or not. (Perhaps this shows that it is > better not to use the internal split tree?)
Indeed, the + case can be distinguished enlarging one window, | getting either __|-- or -+-+-, or still +, and checking for | changes in the other windows. So it's possible to recover the split tree from the window list. -- "You cannot really appreciate Dilbert unless you read it in the original Klingon" _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs