On Fri, 11 May 2001, "Yu-Jui Lee" wrote:
>
> >>3) I noticed that that applications weren't always asserting themselves
> >>over apps that were already running. Like when I had some bar running,
> >>and the canvas animation, then tried to launch the calculator, nothing
> >>appeared to happen. Although the calculator was running, so either it was
> >>waiting for realestate, or didn't "assert" itself. (The video program
> >>asserted itself *over* the canvas in the same situation, which seems to be
> >>a negative trait given the "no overlapping windows" design goal)
> >
> >Yes, this is what most apps (that create toolbars or panels instead of
> >popups) will do. It's actually running, but wedged into the non-existant
> >space between the canvas app and the edge of the screen. If you resize
> >the canvas app with it's panelbar (assuming you have panel resizing
> >compiled
> >in) the calculator will appear.
> >
> >The goal is to have the server intelligently resize and (if necessary)
> >reorient applications when new ones are launched, but this isn't
> >implemented
> >yet
>
> I also encountered the problem described above. I don't want to let
> the user resize by himself, and I configured the server with no panel
> bar. Is it possible that the newly created application is resized to
> maximum immediately with a client function call?
An application is in control of its own size and position using pgSetWidget on it's
applciation widget to change PG_WP_SIZE and PG_WP_SIDE.
I think what you want would require changing the size of other applications that may
be stacked before the app in question. There is currently no way to resize other
applications to get more screen space.
>
> Yu-Jui Lee
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