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From: joe@etac632 (Joe Fulson-Woytek)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Getting window position
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Date: 27 Jul 90 14:26:40 GMT
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Reply-To: joe@etac632.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joe Fulson-Woytek)
Organization: NSESCC, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD
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I have written the standard "helloworld" program as described in the
"Introduction to the X Window System" by Oliver Jones. My goal is to
use X on an Iris, a Sun, and an HP. The basic program works on all 3.
My next step was to find the position and size of the X window after an 
expose event. The likely candidates seemed to be XGetGeometry or
XGetWindowAttributes. Either of these work fine on the Iris. BUt on
both the HP and the Sun, the size is right but the x and y position
come out as 0, 0 (I should note that I do an XGetGeometry before the
Event loop and it returns the correct x and y position - I only have
problems within the event loop). I next tried to check for a
ConfigureNotify event and use the XConfigureEvent structure to get
the x and y. This also returned a 0,0 on the Sun (I haven't tried the
ConfigureNotify on the other systems). One more note - the problem is
with the server - I can run my program on the HP or Sun and display
on the IRIS and get the window position.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Joe FUlson-Woytek