bug#5721: Feature request: Function that returns absolute coordinates

[Jan Djärv]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu skrev 2010-07-15 11.38:
> > > > > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:35:37 +0200, Jan Djärv<jan.h.d@swipnet.se>  said:
>
> > > What would happen to the absolute scaled coordinate system if
> > > scaling factors are different from frame to frame?
>
> > Placing frames based on the position of another frame is the only
> > operation I can think of that uses coordinates from one frame and
> > applies it to another.
>
> And you introduce yet another special function for that purpose?

I don't know what you mean by "yet another".  I already purposed functions for 
frame placement by unscaled coords.  Why is that such a burdon, but 
introducing a whole series of parallel functions like pos-x-y et.al isn't?

        Jan D.