On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 12 Oct 2003 16:23:53 +0200, Tomas wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > > On 12 Oct 2003 14:17:30 +0200, Tomas wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello. I was missing some functionality (specifically saving the position
> > > > and size of windows) so I started to develop a module.
> > > [..]
> > >
> > > If you describe exactly what do you need to do in your module, it is
> > > possible there is a solution without additional modules.
> >
> > The thing is that I would like to select windows and choosing "Save
> > position/size" or something from a menu (or whatever), to save theyre
> > state in some kind of file. Next time the window opens, the window is
> > resized/moved to the saved state. I use FvwmEvent for this right now (with
> > inspiration from the FAQ), but I have to put all the window-names in the
> > fvwm config-file, I would like to simplify this a bit.
>
> It is not much longer to write a Perl module, but let's do it without it.
>
> DestroyFunc RestoreWindowGeometry
> AddToFunc RestoreWindowGeometry
> Read saved-window-geometries Quiet
>
> DestroyModuleConfig FvwmEvent-NewWindow: *
> *FvwmEvent-NewWindow: add_window RestoreWindowGeometry
>
> AddToFunc StartFunction
> + I Module FvwmEvent FvwmEvent-NewWindow
>
> DestroyFunc SaveWindowGeometry
> AddToFunc SaveWindowGeometry
> + I AddToFunc RestoreWindowGeometry
> + I + I ThisWindow ('$0') ResizeMove $1 $2 $3 $4
> + I Exec echo "+ I ThisWindow ('$0') ResizeMove $1 $2 $3 $4"
> >>$[FVWM_USERDIR]/saved-window-geometries
>
> Key F4 A CS Pick SaveWindowGeometry $[w.name] $[w.x] $[w.y] $[w.width] $[w.height]
>
> Not tested, but it should work, I think. Press Ctrl-Shift-F4 to save the
> current window geometry, it is restored automatically on the next launch.
>
> To remove the old windows with the same name you may do something like:
> Exec grep -v "ThisWindow ('$0')" file >file.new && mv file.new file; echo ..
>
> This supposes window names do not include double quotes. To make it more
> robust, write a module in Perl rather than relying on Exec+shell quotes
> to work. If you ask me nicely I may write a Perl module for you doing
> the same. But I don't really want to spoil your fun. :)
>
> Regards,
> Mikhael.
Wow, thanks! That'll do for now. But I think I need to improve my
Perl-skills sometime, so it seems like a nice project to try when I have
the time.
/Tomas
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