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From: pepke@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Saving window position question
Keywords: Window, MultiFinder
Message-ID: <226@loligo.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 28 Jul 89 15:57:56 GMT
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Reply-To: pepke@loligo.UUCP (Eric Pepke)
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The saved position and size may no longer be valid when the document is 
opened on a Macintosh with a different configuration of screens, so that
must be checked as well.  How are people out there doing it?  My favorite
way of doing this for a standard document window is

1) Store the desired rectangle of the content region in a variable windowRect.
2) Make a variable barRect such that
      barRect . top = windowRect . top - 13;
      barRect . bottom = windowRect . top - 5;
      barRect . left = windowRect . left + 4;
      barRect . right = windowRect . right - 4;
3) Determine if this intersects GetGrayRgn().

This seems to be consistent with the criteria that DragWindow uses to
determine whether a window position is reasonable or not, or at least it's
close.

Are there any better ways?

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