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From: mjm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael McClennen)
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Subject: Re: How do you find a window's location?
Keywords: window
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Date: 29 May 90 16:05:13 GMT
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jwwalker@usceast.UUCP (Jim Walker) writes:

>I know how to set a window's location with MoveWindow and
>SizeWindow, but how do you *find* a window's location?  If the
>window is visible, I can use
>  (**((WindowPeek)window_ptr)->contRgn).rgnBBox
>but that seems to contain garbage when the window is invisible.
>Yet the Window Manager somehow keeps track of the locations of
>invisible windows.

How about checking the grafPort's portRect?

Michael McClennen
Dartmout College Academic Computing