Over 99% of my computer usage must be on windows pre-defined for me by other people's software.
But I develop a lot of utilities – and when that happens, I am (for a while) the only user in the world of my novel utility. Is that too small an audience to address? I respectfully suggest that if we restrict attention to J users creating utilities on an iMac making use of wd (windows driver) – in itself a tiny proportion of computer users, then there is a substantial demand for a position-remembering feature. At least for those who get bored of dragging the window from the centre of the screen to its usual place every time they make it appear. But if I'm wrong and it's only me that has a requirement for it (…and maybe I am, because I can't recall anyone else proposing it) then I shall continue to use my own homebrew solution. I wouldn't have posted, only I spotted ~config/winpos.dat and conjectured that something or other must be using it (it gets updated daily). I'm not sure what (…the jqt Term and Edit windows maybe?) but it looks as if it's designed to support a generic facility. On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 4:38 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > IMO the need to remember last position is needed by overlapping > window paradigm. But this paradigm had become less important > nowadays because screen size is either quite large, 21" monitor > or quite small, 5 to 10" in mobile, so that either single window > or tilted windows are more appropriate. ymmv > > Пт, 11 мая 2018, Ian Clark написал(а): > > Is there a vendor-recommended method of saving/restoring the last > position > > (and size) of a user-defined form in jqt? > > > > I notice a cache of XYWH in ~config/winpos.dat but I can't see any code > in > > ~addons that writes to it. > > I only discovered it when re-using old code of mine to do the job in > > question, which fortituously also uses the name: winpos. > > > > I always seem to be re-inventing the wheel. But I would really prefer to > > use the vendor's "wheel" in this case because it's in code I may want to > > distribute. > > > > If no such vendor-recommended method exists, can I propose it? Either as > an > > addon, or as part of the jqt window-driver. If it were an easy-to-use > > feature I'd use it more often. > > > > Ian Clark > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --armor --export 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
