For more on this topic, check out the comments in pdtk_canvas.tcl and this link: http://wiki.tcl.tk/11502
Tk X11 returns the size of the window without the framing, and the framing varies widely depending on the WM. For your plugin, you'll want to override pdtk_canvas_place_window using 'rename' and write one that works for your WM. .hc On 02/01/2013 05:34 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > Hi all > > The assumed window border sizes are hard-coded in tcl/pd-gui.tcl: > > set ::windowframex 3 > set ::windowframey 53 > > However, those values might not be correct on some systems. On my system > (with fluxbox as a window manager) those values actually are 0 and 44. > This leads to moving canvas: Whenever I save a patch, close and open it > again, it shifts 9px up and 3px to the left. This shift even happens on > each 'vis 0, vis 1' cycle sent to [s pd-canvasname]. > > This is actually not a Pd question: Is there a way to know the actual > windowframe sizes in tcl/tk? Detecting the actual sizes would be the > only real solution to this problem, I suppose. > > Alternatively, is there a way to write a GUI plugin to put my > adjustments into, so that I don't have to modify tcl/pd-gui.tcl after > every Pd update? I - naively - tried to simply put this: > > set ::windowframex 0 > set ::windowframey 44 > > into ~/pd-externals/correct_windowframe-plugin.tcl. It seems to work so > far, if I load patches from the file->open menu. When loading a patch > from the command line, the wrong values still are used for the main > patch. For all sub-sequent canvases (a.k.a subpatches of the main patch, > abstractions of the main patch or sub-sequently opened patches), the > correct values from the plugin are taken. > > Another issue is the wrapping of the menu in narrow canvases. When I > work in a patch that shows the menu in two lines, the offset increases > by another 28px. This means that on each save/reload cycle (or 'vis 0, > vis 1' cycle, for that matter) the canvas shifts up by 28px. Of course, > it's not a really urgent problem, but still slightly annoying. > > Roman > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > Pd-dev@iem.at > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev > _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list Pd-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
