Re: Scrollbars patch

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>]

--- Harold L Hunt <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> Jehan <nahor@bravobrava.com> said:
> 
> > Harold L Hunt wrote:
> > 
> > >>>8) I added WM_MAXIMIZE to the window style when -scrollbars is
> passed.
> > >>>This
> > >>>allows one to maximize the Cygwin/XFree86 window.  However, there
> are a
> > >>>few
> > >>>problems here... such as, what is a maximized 800x600 window on a
> 1024x768
> > >>>screen?  I dunno... try it, it is weird.
> > >>
> > >>I wanted to but I can't compile for now (missing xf86openConfigFile,
> > >>xf86readConfigFile, xf86closeConfigFile at link timeand I don't have
> > >>time to look at that yet)
> > >>But, a wild guess, isn't ptMaxSize in WM_GETMINMAXINFO for that?
> (MSDN,
> > >>MINMAXINFO: ptMaxSize | when a window is maximized or resized, ...)
> > >>
> > > 
> > > I've included a tarball with the missing files above.
> > > 
> > > We can't make ptMaxSize larger than our visual size, because we
> could have an
> > > 800x600 visual on a 1024x768 display... we would end up with several
> thousand
> > > blank pixels if we really maximized the window.  That is the
> weirdness that I
> > > was talking about.
> > 
> > Now that I can compile and test, here how it works.
> > - ptMaxSize is the maximum size of the window when you press the 
> > maximize button. In practice, when you maximzed a window, it takes the
> 
> > min between ptMaxSize, ptMaxTrackSize, and the Windows desktop (at
> least 
> > on my single monitor machine) .
> > - ptMaxTrackSize is the maximum size of the window when dragging a 
> > border (or using the size in the system menu).
> > 
> > Also, I don't think we want a bigger window than what Windows set (do
> we 
> > wan't the window to be bigger than the Windows (virtual) desktop?)
> > So I suggest that:
> > 	ptMaxSize = min (ptMaxSize, size of visual)
> > 	ptMaxTrackSize = min (ptMaxTrackSize , size of visual)
> > 
> > 
> >    Jehan
> > 
> 
> Sort of.  On single and uni monitor displays, a maximized window is set
> to the
> minimum of ptMaxSize, ptMaxTrackSize, and the size of the windows
> display area
> on the current monitor.
> 
> Oh hell... I give up.  I don't know... we will just have to see how
> people
> like this when I finally make a test release.  We really need someone
> with >1
> monitors on their Windows machine to help out here...
> 
> Harold

I have a laptop with the additional monitor port on the back, will that be
of any use?

Cheers,
Nicholas


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