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

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

>>>>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:32:54 +0200, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> said:

>>> 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?

Neither the frame placement function nor
window-(inside-)absolute-pixel-edges is necessary if we use the
absolute unscaled coordinate system and introduce a function parallel
to pos-x-y, which is anyway necessary for external programs' use.

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
                                mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp