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Re: Infrastructural complexity.
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martin rudalics |
Subject: |
Re: Infrastructural complexity. |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:08:14 +0200 |
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> Suppose that the edit area contains a
> window that is the full width of the edit
> area but that there are control panels to
> the left and right.
>
> Would it not DTRT to, for that window, count
> the space taken by the control panels as "fringe"?
> That is to say that the TOTAL_COLS of the
> edit area window would match the total width
> of its (whole window system window) frame. There
> would be largish "fringe". It would so happen
> that the attached frames are drawn in that fringe.
Mixing concepts like frames, windows and fringes is beyond my
imagination.
>> Also an application might want to know whether the coordinates returned
>> by `mouse-position' refer to the upper-left corner of the edit area or
>> the primary frame. If they refer to the upper-left corner of the
>> primary frame, we probably have to, for each primary frame, specify the
>> offset of the root window of that frame (the upper-left corner of the
>> edit area) in order to be able to determine in which window of the edit
>> area the mouse is (provided the edit area can be split).
>
> Again, I don't see why "fringe" doesn't already
> handle this.
I don't see why and how it does.
>> Changing the underlying functions is the hard thing. If you eventually
>> come up with a sketch of how you want to address issues like the ones I
>> sketched above I might be able to tell you more.
>
> Well, there you go.
Sorry, that's too much Infrastructural complexity for my taste so I
shall give up here. You'll have to talk this over with someone else.
martin
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., (continued)
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Thomas Lord, 2009/07/27
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., martin rudalics, 2009/07/28
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Thomas Lord, 2009/07/28
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- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Thomas Lord, 2009/07/29
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., martin rudalics, 2009/07/30
- Re: Infrastructural complexity., Thomas Lord, 2009/07/30
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- Re: Infrastructural complexity., martin rudalics, 2009/07/31
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