[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5721: closed (Feature request: Function that returns absolute coordinates)

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> Feature request: Function that returns absolute coordinates
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> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:33:05 +0900
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> Recently, I wrote pos-tip.el which allows users to easily show tooltip
> on arbitrary buffer position (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PosTip).
> However, external program xwininfo must be called for calculating the
> absolute coordinates in which tooltip is shown because the location of
> tooltip must be specified by absolute coordinates, so this program can
> work only under X window system.
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> Some persons say, "We can calculate absolute coordinates by using
> `frame-parameter' and `window-pixel-edges'", but it's a mistake.
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> To calculate absolute coordinates under X window system, users must
> also obtain the pixel height of menu-bar and tool-bar and the pixel
> width of frame extents, because `window-pixel-edges' returns the
> location of window relative to a X window corresponding to `window-id',
> but `frame-parameter' returns the location of a X window corresponding
> to `outer-window-id' or `parent-id'. That is, these two functions
> regard the different X windows as `frame'. Unfortunately, there is no
> way to obtain the tool-bar height etc. without calling external programs
> such as xwininfo.
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> I also encountered this problem when I wrote scim-bridge.el
> (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ScimBridge) because SCIM requires the
> clients to send the absolute coordinates of cursor location.
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> Please implement the functions like `posn-absolute-x-y',
> `posn-at-absolute-x-y', and `window-absolute-pixel-edges'.
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> IRIE Shinsuke
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> I added functions window-absolute-pixel-edges and 
> window-inside-absolute-pixel-edges.  I tested on X and Nextstep (OSX), but 
> they probably do the wrong thing on w32.  I don't have w32 available.
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>         Jan D.
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