On "Tue, 07 Jan 1997 13:18:22 CDT",
Stewart Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following:
> On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Scott Hicks wrote:
>
> > I just found another bug last night. It has to do with the handling
> > of the movement of any top level window. If you grab a toplevel
> > window and drag it such that it goes off the left hand side of the
> > screen it causes vtcl to generate an error. Vtcl does come up with
> > an error dialog stating:
> > Error: bad geometry specifier
> > "200x200++69"
>
> I've tracked it down to what appears to be inconsistencies in
> the way tk4.x and tk8.x set geometries for toplevel windows. The short
> fix is that I've re-commented out code that allows manual entry
> of toplevel geometries in the geometry editor.
>
> tk4.x and tk.x will both return strings like this:
>
> % wm geometry .
> 200x200+-130+118
>
> but tk8.x will not accept this as valid geometry when setting whereas
> tk4.x will. I guess I'll report this to Sun.
>
> -stewart-
>
Yup it is a bug.
Looking at regular X co-ords I would of imagined that the norm. would
be:
200X200-130+118
I would say that tk8.x is looking for a setting as such.
Hmm, wondering if a parser after checking Version numbers is required
here?
Regards,
Matt.
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