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I thought I would try this function to return the working area of the window for aligning objects better.
Now this function does actually sort of work. Only does not seem to take into account the actual borders of the Windows. This is more problematic with 3D sylte windows as the window itself has to be a few pixels larger to accommodate the contents.

So the question is how are you supposed to get around these problems other than what I did before in just adding a few pixels padding around objects. The problem with that is it is difficult to get all the objects to align seamlessly :roll:

There also seems to be some "bug" in MiNT as the object area doesn't calculate correctly.

EG:


In TOS:


But even TOS manages to miss the bottom/right edges off somehow as well :shrug:

That's not MiNT itself, that's Xaaes or whatever GEM reimplementation you're running on top.

MiNT doesn't have any GEM functionality in it and only deals with GEMDOS calls.

stephen_usher wrote: 20 Dec 2022 14:28 That's not MiNT itself, that's Xaaes or whatever GEM reimplementation you're running on top.

MiNT doesn't have any GEM functionality in it and only deals with GEMDOS calls.

Yeah meant Xaaes.

Decided to just draw a red bar things simple.

So in TOS:


Xaaes


So must be some calculation problem relating to the actual form objects :roll:

ahhh same problem as this post (again) viewtopic.php?p=95674#p95674

Have to set the XY in a different function, keep forgetting FFS. Ill write my own wrapper for it all when I got it all sorted cos be way easier in the long run.

Made it worse, but oh well. Progress.

Still does not add up :roll: Even though the red Square clearly defines the internal of the window. When I set the XY location of the main window, it draws in the wrong place. :roll:

"menuy" is just a offset from the height of the menu bar, it is about 12px basically ( totally relevant ) but it also has 8px added on. So the Y offset ends up being 20px.. This would be the equivalent of drawing the red box 20px further down from under the title bar... It does not make sense..

This is the result of the above code. Granted the X axis is a little out.. but not important right now.


Now what *should* work is using the "red square" dimensions with no offsets at all. But this gives this instead.


The only possible thing is that the function to set the window location does not work correctly for some reason :roll:


:dizzy:


EDIT:

I guess it's possible the window (red block) takes into account the menubar size. But the object positioning is absolute on the screen and does not take into account the menubar.But that would not explain the X-axis being out as well :roll:


EDIT2:

But even with offsets it won't work with higher resolutions :roll:

ahhhhhh

I opened the main window then did not work out the AES_handle :headbang:

This explains why it always seemed to be locating to the actual desktop rather than the GB7 window :lol:

The red box worked because that above code was run before drawing the red box. So I just moved that code up a few lines and voilà :D


Now just need to sort out the window sizes properly now.

It's taken so long to figure this out I cannot remember why I was doing it now :lol: :roll:

That's purdy.