Luca Olivetti schrieb:

Strange, on mageia 4, kde, lazarus 1.2.4 it doesn't work. What I'm
trying to do is to tile windows one next to the other. Using
GetWindowRect under windows I can do it properly, while on linux gtk the
windows overlap (i.e. with this layout


     A  B  C
     D  E

A overlaps D and B overlaps E, the amount of overlap seems to be equal
to the height of the title bar).

IIRC the Linux (X11) window managers communicate only the size of the client area to the widgetsets, so that attempts to derive the total window extent from this information are subject to assumptions about the extent of the window "decoration" (caption, theme...). They also don't allow (offer no means for) ownerdraw of the NC area of a window.

On Windows instead the owner of a form can paint the entire area of a window (in WM_NCPAINT), so that the Windows window manager allows access to the full extent of a window. Also note that Windows uses distinct windows for every TWinControl, while these are ordinary controls in X11, under exclusive management of the widgetset.

DoDi


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