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Re: Scrollbars patch
- From: Harold L Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:52:41 EDT
- Subject: Re: Scrollbars patch
Jehan <nahor@bravobrava.com> said:
> Harold L Hunt wrote:
>
> >>>8) I added WM_MAXIMIZE to the window style when -scrollbars is passed.
> >>>This
> >>>allows one to maximize the Cygwin/XFree86 window. However, there are a
> >>>few
> >>>problems here... such as, what is a maximized 800x600 window on a 1024x768
> >>>screen? I dunno... try it, it is weird.
> >>
> >>I wanted to but I can't compile for now (missing xf86openConfigFile,
> >>xf86readConfigFile, xf86closeConfigFile at link timeand I don't have
> >>time to look at that yet)
> >>But, a wild guess, isn't ptMaxSize in WM_GETMINMAXINFO for that? (MSDN,
> >>MINMAXINFO: ptMaxSize | when a window is maximized or resized, ...)
> >>
> >
> > I've included a tarball with the missing files above.
> >
> > We can't make ptMaxSize larger than our visual size, because we could have an
> > 800x600 visual on a 1024x768 display... we would end up with several thousand
> > blank pixels if we really maximized the window. That is the weirdness that I
> > was talking about.
>
> Now that I can compile and test, here how it works.
> - ptMaxSize is the maximum size of the window when you press the
> maximize button. In practice, when you maximzed a window, it takes the
> min between ptMaxSize, ptMaxTrackSize, and the Windows desktop (at least
> on my single monitor machine) .
> - ptMaxTrackSize is the maximum size of the window when dragging a
> border (or using the size in the system menu).
>
> Also, I don't think we want a bigger window than what Windows set (do we
> wan't the window to be bigger than the Windows (virtual) desktop?)
> So I suggest that:
> ptMaxSize = min (ptMaxSize, size of visual)
> ptMaxTrackSize = min (ptMaxTrackSize , size of visual)
>
>
> Jehan
>
Sort of. On single and uni monitor displays, a maximized window is set to the
minimum of ptMaxSize, ptMaxTrackSize, and the size of the windows display area
on the current monitor.
Oh hell... I give up. I don't know... we will just have to see how people
like this when I finally make a test release. We really need someone with >1
monitors on their Windows machine to help out here...
Harold