func to save/restore window position, size?

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

Am Die, den 10.02.2004 schrieb Jasper Huijsmans um 21:30:
> Op di 10-02-2004, om 20:42 schreef Danny Milosavljevic:
> ...
> > > 
> > > Hmm, I'm not convinced this should be a library function, actually. I
> > > can imagine different windows do different kind of things.
> > 
> > Dunno :) Just got the impression I'd like to have some programs open at
> > the same position&size they were last... but maybe it's not *that*
> > common to make it worth a lib function. (although I feel that I really
> > find it weird to have to do the remembering window pos&sizing for the
> > program manually... maybe I'm just lazy ;))
> > 
> 
> If you are not actually saving and restoring the data from disk in these
> functions, I don't see you gain much by it at all. 
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but you propose to have something like
> 
>   get_window_info();
>   set_window_info();
> 
> and connect those to the relevant signals. 

hmmm... good idea ^^

now for the signals... which one for the "load" ? :)
[moving after showing the window looks weird, so is there a signal I get
before the window is shown, but after the window is initialized enough
to make the move,resize,... functions work]

> 
> Defining hook functions and attaching those to the window, to me doesn't
> sound easier or more convenient than simply connecting to the signals
> yourself. I'm probably missing something.

yeah, you are probably right :) I should think of the easy way first ^^

> 
> Maybe it's better to really show me what you mean. If you write whatever
> you need for xfce4-mixer and that works well, we can put it in the
> library.

Yeah, I will do that :)

Now, a few Q's for the process itself ... 

- To save, can I use gtk_window_get_size ? Gtk docs mentions something
about a race condition with the window manager... so if it causes weird
problems, I'd rather not...

- Is there a recommended order to call the set functions ? (resize,
move, set_gravity)

Can the set functions be called before the window is onscreen ?

- how do I read window flags ? (I'd think sticky would be good to retain
across mixer restarts)

> 
> Sorry if I sound very negative. If you feel it would be a good addition
> for the library, there's a good change that I'm wrong. 

hehe, nah, actually I want to try it within mixer first too. 
The time it is needed by another prog, we know where to steal it from 
:D 

I just wanted to make sure it isn't already there  :)

cheers,
    Danny


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