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From: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Determining Window Border Widths
Message-ID: <783@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com>
Date: 26 Apr 89 23:57:34 GMT
References: <2164@pur-phy> <100572@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
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In article <100572@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <2164@pur-phy> murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) writes:
>>With the ability to use fonts other than Topaz 80 in different
>>windows, I am wondering how the system (Intuition in particular)
>>determines the width of borders.
>
>Magically, you don't need to know. Instead, you can get the information
>*after* intuition has figured out all of the borders by looking at the 
>fields in the window structured named :
>	BorderLeft, BorderRight, BorderTop, BorderBottom
>
>These contain the border sizes. 

True but they only contain that information *after* the window has been
opened.  There are times that it would be nice to have this info *before*
you open the window (like, so you could set the window's size prior to
the OpenWindow() call).

Maybe this qualifies as a 1.4 wish?

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