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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Saving window position question
Keywords: Window, MultiFinder
Message-ID: <7889@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 7 Jul 89 18:36:47 GMT
References: <505@suna.CMI.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
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Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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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)??

You can get the size just by looking at the portRect of the window.
The position is almost as easy -- SetPort to the window and then do a
LocalToGlobal on the point (0,0).  These will require a bit more work
if you have been doing SetOrigin calls, which is one of the many
reasons I never use SetOrigin.
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