Window Positioning

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Hi Peter,

You might want to consider something else at the same time. There is a great deal of flexibility in the real estate that users have available these days. Not just screen size, but also the number of screens. If you do decide to manage the window locations, you may want to have a preference whereby the user can elect to have control of the locations, sizes and relationships of the windows themselves. I would be very frustrated to find that after I got everything arranged to my liking to then have the locations (and sizes) changed for me the next time I opened the application.

I'm very happy you brought this up, since I'm working on a multiple window project myself, and never gave this a thought. Thanks.

Just my opinion,

Joe Wilkins

On Dec 7, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> OK, I understand.  It sounds like I should be specific about the default position where I want each of my windows to appear and then come up with a scheme for the standalone that saves the position of each window when it's closed.  I already have a scheme in place to save other settings in an outboard file because of not being able to save stuff within the standalone so that shouldn't be a big deal.
> 
> A lot of this has to do with windows getting hidden behind other windows.  I already have a menu that lists all the currently open windows so users can easily get to one that is hidden by selecting it from the menu but I think attempting to avoid that problem by specific positioning would be a good idea.
> 
> Pete Haworth
> 
> On Dec 7, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:
> 
>> stacks save their position and size into themselves when you save them, be it via the save menu or by any other means. Stacks that are a standalone can't save themselves. Other programs use  setting files or the registry to save their window size and positioning between launches.
>> 
>> Note that the IDE might reposition your stacks, depending on the windowboundingrect which excludes the IDE's menubar, iconbar and the tools palette from the available places for stacks.
>> 
>> 
>> On 7 Dec 2010, at 23:59, Peter Haworth wrote:
>> 
>>> Given that I  don't provide any coordinates for the window position when I open a stack, what default position does LC use?
>>> 
>>> My stack windows always seem to open at the same coordinates but each stack window is at a different location.  If I drag a stack window to a different location on the screen, close it, then open it again, it is displayed at its original position, not the one I dragged it to so it seems like it's my responsibility to record the window location in those circumstances if I want it to open at the same location next time around.
>>> 
>>> Pete Haworth
>> 
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