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From: gardner@prls.UUCP (Robert Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: editing default window size
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Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 15:11:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 15:11:51 1987
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Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <2272@emory.uucp> riddle@emory.uucp (Glenn T. Barry) writes:
>When Guide opens, the default window does not fill the entire screen.

Many early programs used WIND resources to specify new window locations
and sizes, but unfortunately they aren't general-purpose enough to use
effectively with variable-sized monitors. It seems a new resource-type
or redefinition of WIND would be helpful (which GetNewWindow() would use).
For instance, if the window coordinates are negative they could be
interpreted as offsets from the screenbits.bounds. Then, creating a window
that fills the screen with a few pixels of space would use (0,0,-2,-2) or
something. Most programs these days (I suspect) calculate window sizes
on the fly from screenbits.bounds or stuff the old size/location in the
document somewhere. It seems that a nice, general-purpose, user-modifiable
technique is needed now that screen sizes are not fixed.

Robert Gardner