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From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Zoomed windows and icons ?
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Date: 10 Oct 89 15:26:04 GMT
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At this time I write an application that does heavily use child windows
in its client area. Therefore I need to implement some "Stack" and
"Tile" commands into our user interface. To resize and move the childs
to form a stack is not a problem, it works fine if I do not zoom some
windows to maximum size. If the user maximized one, I need to restore
them first with ShowWindow(hWnd, SHOW_RESTORE) and then move/size them
with SetWindowPos(..) or MoveWindow(..). This has the not very nice
optical effect, that the window is first restored to the size/position
it had before it was maximized and then is moved/sized to its new
position in the windows stack. If the program runs on a slow 286 with a
very high resolution graphics card (e.g. Wyse 1280x800) this is not
acceptable. 

What can I do to restore a maximized window directly to a new position
and size without the intermediate step ?

The same problem occurs, if I want to open an Icon to a new position and
size rather than to its previous size and position.
And it's the same problem with toplevel windows (consider a screen tiler
or stack utility).

Has anybody a solution for this problem ?

Thanks in advance,

Kai Uwe Rommel
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
West Germany