On 8/6/05 05:41, "Matthew Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 08/06/2005 14:33, Scott Haneda at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> on 6/7/05 8:57 PM, Matthew Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
>>> set msgWindow to make new draft window
>>> set bounds of msgWindow to {100, 100, 500, 500}
>>> end tell
>>
>> Can you tell me what each of the 4 value represents? I seem to be getting
>> no where, making windows so small they can not be shown :-)
>>
>> Are they pixels, and which ones are position and which are size?
>
> They define the rectangle where the window will reside. The first two define
> the top left corner of the window (ie. its position on the screen). The
> other two are the size of the window. One is the height and the other is the
> width. Not sure which is which.
Not quite - they are the absolute screen locations for the window. The first
pair represent the location of the top left corner, the second pair the
bottom right corner. All taken from the top leftmost corner of the screen.
It is often easier to remember as {left edge, top edge, right edge, bottom
edge}, and don't forget that the first 44 rows of the screen are under the
menu bar
--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
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