Dumb Window size Question

Alex Tweedly alex at tweedly.net
Sat Feb 18 06:45:39 EST 2006


stomfi wrote:

> I'm using a runrev runtime on a Linux Live CD.
> Depending on the platform, the live CD sets the screen size from the 
> capabilities of the video card, using a frame buffer.
> This can be any valid size from 1200x1024 to 640x480.
>
> I can easily find out the screen size with the xwininfo shell tool.
>
> I want to know how I can tell my runrev windows and all objects on 
> them to scale for these different screen sizes.
>
use the Transcript function screenRect()  - reasonable description in 
the docs.

Note that as well the the screenRect, you should also look out the for 
windowBoundingRect() - it's possible to restrict the space your windows 
use to keep the menu bars out of the way.

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