Re: setting size and position of window
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:04:12AM +0100, Jim Nagel wrote: can anybody suggest a trick whereby i could make a Netsurf window open at a certain size and position on screen, to display a local file? Isn't that what Netsurf does with... Make the NS window the size you want it, move it to the position you want it, then do... Menu Display Window Set as default position. Obviously my hand is now smelly and brown as I usually get hold of the wrong end of the stick. ;-) Dave -- Dave Triffid
Re: setting size and position of window
On 31 Mar, Jeremy Nicoll - ml netsurf wrote in message mpro.lixhsp006nyd70...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid: Of course there's a RO commandline command; how do you think netsurf gets started? (Look in !Netsurf.!Run to find out). Whether it understands arguments is a slightly different question... Untried, but a quick glance at the source code suggests that the RISC OS front-end should. -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England Wakefield Acorn RISC OS Show Saturday 16 April 2011 http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/ http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/
Re: setting size and position of window
Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote: can anybody suggest a trick whereby i could make a Netsurf window open at a certain size and position on screen, to display a local file? If NS itself can't do that, you should be able to manage it by putting the command to have NS display the page in an Obeyfile, followed perhaps by a short delay, followed by a command to move and size the window as required. The latter part can be done with WO_MoveWind commands, eg: *WO_MoveWind AntiSpJN AntiSpJN Summary 222 720 1254 1164 (where the parameters are app-name, window-title, and the x0 y0 [x1 y1] coordinates of the lower left [and optionally also upper right] corner of the window) implemented by Druck's 'WindOpen' module (from the Armclub website). In the past I've run Obey files which issued a different WO_... command, to produce a list of the appname/title/position of all currently displayed windows, and wrote it to a file on the RAM disk. The obey file then contained a WaitUntil (by Vince Hudd, IIRC) command to wait for the list file to get written to, then ran another program which read the file. It pattern-matched the appname/title parts of the currently displayed windows and for those that matched certain criteria issued WO_MoveWind commands for them quoting the precise appname/title combinations of those windows. HTH -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
Re: setting size and position of window
In article 0a05d4bb51@nails.abbeypress.net, Jim Nagel nets...@abbeypress.co.uk wrote: can anybody suggest a trick whereby i could make a Netsurf window open at a certain size and position on screen, to display a local file? the page in mind is the control panel for my networked monsterprinter. it's useful to have it handy during a print job without taking up too much screen space. Alternatively, if you have a tailored browser homepage (I use the same one across all browsers on all OSes on my local network) you could include an iframe of the appropriate size and position containing your printer's home page. I use one here to include a local webcam which 'refreshes itself' but it could just as easily hold any page, local or otherwise. It can be found directly here: http://42.tjrh.eu/ when Myonix is up. (i.e. it's not a copy, it's my actual homepage here served by WebJames) Warning: some people will hate this page with a vengeance. At times I do. It may pass the validator but If you are easily offended by too much content, an over-use of tables for layout, unnecessary transparency, garish background images and some links which seem simply broken, walk away now. Thank you. It has been gestating since 2004 but has grown into a ratty toddler. ;-) It is interesting to use a mainstream browser alongside NetSurf to see the differences in rendering. Not many, really, except the lack of opacity in NetSurf's CSS and its occasional extra line feed in table cells. That, and you miss the google ads included by using a javascript script. Shame. ;-) -- Tim Hill .. www.timil.com
setting size and position of window
can anybody suggest a trick whereby i could make a Netsurf window open at a certain size and position on screen, to display a local file? the page in mind is the control panel for my networked monsterprinter. it's useful to have it handy during a print job without taking up too much screen space. -- Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk
