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From: joe@etac632 (Joe Fulson-Woytek)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Getting window position
Keywords: XTranslateCoordinates , root window, window position.
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Date: 2 Aug 90 13:07:02 GMT
References: <532@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
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In article <532@creatures.cs.vt.edu> ramakris@bloss.cs.vt.edu (S.Ramakrishnan) writes:
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;
; Getting the window position
;  I assume that you need the position of the top left of thw window with
; respect to the root window coordinates. 
;  Why not try this simple method :
;
;   int  pos_x, pos_y ;
;
;   XTranslateCoordinates(display , window , root_w , 0 , 0 , &pos_x , pos_y );
;
;   where display = the current display of the window.
;         window = the window in question.
;         ( 0 , 0 ) == coordinates of the top left of the window.
OOps. I had justed posted a response to a previous suggestion to try
XTranslateCoordinate by saying it didn't work. When I saw this second posting
suggesting the same thing, I decided to recheck my code. I discovered I had
set the "window" argument wrong, and now XTranslateCoordinate works as
advertised. Thanks.
Joe Fulson-Woytek