Re: Live CD and others general GNUstep remarks

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 9 Feb 2005, at 00:49, Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> There also should be code added to NSWindow which prevents an app from
> positioning a window outside of the existing screen and this is a 
> modification,
> if it's not already in NSWindow, I'll add it.

Not so simple ... some code will temporarily place a windows outside 
the screen to hide it, also you may well want it partially off screen 
... so you need to be careful not to interfere with these odd cases.
I think rather, we could do with some sort of hint system in gorm files 
which would reposition windows when the files are unarchived if 
necessary.
Perhaps this is what you meant though.

> In case you need further proof..  to demonstrate the preceeding to 
> yourself,
> start a project under MOSX Cocoa and use IB and set the position of 
> the new
> app's window.   Then build the app and watch that the window shows up 
> exactly
> where it was positioned in IB.  Additionally, if you go to the 
> NSWindow size
> inspector in IB, you will see the width, height, x, and y information 
> for the
> window in addition to the "Auto position" portion which I just 
> described.   So,
> this is not a case of information being encoded "by accident". :)

Sounds like they took the right approach ... I don't think it involves 
an NSWindow change
though.

> > > Another related problem (not specific to the live cd) is that apps 
> > > save
> > > their windows position in the defaults
> > > database -- that's good, but there's a slight problem: If the user
> > > change resolution to a lower one...
> > > One solution, perhaps, would be to associate the positions with the
> > > actual resolution -- so you'd save the positions
> > > for each resolution...
>
> Again, there should be code which reconciles the screen size with 
> where the
> windows are placed, as above. :)

The way this *should* work is for the gui (NSWindow) to save window 
positions in
screen dependent defaults ... so when restoring a window the last 
location stored for
the screen size currently in use is the one used to position it.
I thought this was the way the gui did things already, but perhaps it's 
just that it has
been discussed before.