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From: west@gsrc.enet.dec.com (Jim West (Stealth Contractor))
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Getting window position
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Date: 31 Jul 90 17:32:13 GMT
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In article <2919@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, joe@etac632 (Joe Fulson-Woytek) writes...
>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

  Have you tried XTranslateCoordinates relative to the root window?  The
x and y values are relative to the windows parent.  It looks like on the
IRIS that the root window is the parent whereas on the HP and SUN there is
a window between you and the root...probably window manager frame window.

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 Jim West                      |  The Schainker Converse
 west@gsrc.enet.dec.com        |  to Hoare's Law :
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 These are my opinions.        |   Inside every small problem
 Digital has no idea           |     is a larger problem struggling
 what I'm  saying.             |       to get out.
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