Re: Live CD and others general GNUstep remarks

[Uli Kusterer]

In article <mailman.1377.1107894169.2841.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>,
 Alex Perez <aperez@student.santarosa.edu> wrote:

> > There was also the problem that some apps had their windows "outside" 
> > the screen. Actually, at the moment
> > the windows' positions are encoded in the gorm files... and imho that's 
> > a bit wrong ! with wmaker it's not that much  of a problem, but..
> 
> Yes, it's very evil bad and wrong, and I actually just recently asked 
> Greg to address this problem. This worked fine for NeXT originally 
> because their workstations only had a single resolution. It doesn't work 
> fine for us, because we don't have this luxury, and as a result we need 
> to find a solution to the problem instead of pretend it doesn't exist.

 Cocoa automatically constrains window that would lie offscreen to fall 
inside the screen (except if you override - 
(NSRect)constrainFrameRect:(NSRect)frameRect toScreen:(NSScreen *)screen 
to return the rect it got).

 Wouldn't that be the easiest way to fix this?

Just a question,
-- Uli
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