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From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
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Subject: Re: Saving window position question
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Date: 7 Jul 89 15:43:00 GMT
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In article <505@suna.CMI.COM> maryd@suna.CMI.COM (Mary Dimercurio) writes:
>
>Hi!  I am trying to make my application "MultiFinder friendly."  Tech
>note 158 suggests that I should save the positions of the windows that
>I have open so that they will go where the user had them last when the
>application is launched again.  Unfortunately it doesn't say HOW I can
>do this.  How do I get the location of my windows to save (I plan to
>save them in a resource)??
>

  It's quite simple.  Say you have a window pointer theWindow.  You can get
the global coordinates of the window by

  windowPeek(theWindow)^.contRgn^^.rgnBBox

  To make life simple, it you might want to declare a type to store your
window rectangles in:

  TYPE	windRec	=  RECORD
		     saveRects: array [1..maxWindows] of Rect;
		   END;
	windRecPtr  =  ^windRec;
	windRecHand =  ^windRecPtr;

  Now you've got a handle you can store in a resource after a trivial type
coercion.
 
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