Aha! The window is consistently growing by a few pixels, that's why I wouldn't notice it until some random time! Thanks for clearing that up.
I couldn't find anything about this on a quick search of Tcl/Tk known issues, but it does seem like a likely source of the problem. Phil marius schebella wrote: > no, that is a known problem which also appears under windows. but maybe > not under linux. > every time you save the patch, the size gets increased by 1 or even 2 > pixels... I think it is a tcl/tk problem. > marius. > > Frank Barknecht wrote: > >> Hallo, >> Phil Stone hat gesagt: // Phil Stone wrote: >> >> >>> 2) The opening position of property dialogs, when repeatedly accessed, >>> "wander" down the screen, until eventually, they are nearly off the >>> bottom of the screen. I'm guessing the behavior is partly intentional, >>> to enable tiling of multiply-opened windows, but it happens even when >>> only one property window is open at a time. >>> >> 2), like 1), might be a Mac-specific issue, but I guess not. >> >> Normally the real reasons is, that you've moved some patch elements >> over the top or left border of the patcher window. Then Pd's >> coordinate system, which has (0,0) in the upper left corner, tries to >> reorganize itself to the new position of the upper left (0,0) point - >> and it gets confused, which results in the Properties menu getting >> displayed out of focus. >> >> You can easily test this using attached patch. Simple fix: Never place >> anthing beyond the upper or left border! >> >> Ciao >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PD-list@iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list