Re: ion-2 and Mac OS X

[Tuomo Valkonen]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 07:24:29PM -0500, Jon Dugan wrote:
> >I seem to remember some kind of discussion on this list a while back 
> >about reserving strips of screen on the edges. Is this still possible? 
> >I'd like to make ion avoid using the top 32 pixels or so on the 
> >primary screen.
> 
>  I would also like to be able to reserve a strip of my screen so the OS 
> X dock would be visible...

Both ion2/svn and ion3/svn now export WScreen.set_managed_offset (which
was previously already available from C):

/*EXTL_DOC
 * Set offset of objects managed by the screen from actual screen geometry.
 * The table \var{offset} should contain the entries \code{x}, \code{y}, 
 * \code{w} and \code{h} indicating offsets of that component of screen 
 * geometry.
 */
EXTL_EXPORT_AS(WScreen, set_managed_offset)
bool screen_set_managed_offset_extl(WScreen *scr, ExtlTab offset)

After getting a snapshot of Ion from the Subversion repository, the
following calls in ion.lua should stop Ion from using those top 32 
pixels on screen 0:

Ion2:

find_screen_id(0):set_managed_offset{y=32, h=-32, x=0, w=0}

Ion3:

ioncore.find_screen_id(0):set_managed_offset{y=32, h=-32, x=0, w=0}

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Tuomo