mujica@asa.cs.ucla.edu (S. Mujica) (03/24/89)
How can I display as subwindow such that it is not clipped by the parent window borders, when part of the subwindow falls outside the parent window? Thanks, Sergio Mujica mujica@cs.ucla.edu Computer Science Department, UCLA
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (03/24/89)
How can I display as subwindow such that it is not clipped by the
parent window borders, when part of the subwindow falls outside the
parent window?
A subwindow isn't allowed to do this in X.XRCLS@SCFVM.BITNET (Cindy Starr) (03/26/89)
> How can I display as subwindow such that it is not clipped by the > parent window borders, when part of the subwindow falls outside the > parent window? > >A subwindow isn't allowed to do this in X. Philip Gust, from HP, made a presentation at the X Technical Conference that challenged this in his talk "Window Groups as an Alternative to the Parent-Child Relationship in X11." He proposed a parameter CLIP-GROUP or DONT-CLIP-GROUP to determine if the window group members should be clipped to the leader. Other suggestions included parameters to control mapping of group members when the leader is unmapped and to control the stacking order of member windows. What is the reaction from X users and the consortium on these ideas? I've not seen any discussion on them. Aren't some of these issues policy currently set by X? Gust's suggestions seem to push them into the arena of mechanism . . . Cindy Starr e-mail: xrcls@scfvm.nasa.gsfc.gov NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 632 Greenbelt, Md. 20771
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (03/27/89)
Philip Gust, from HP, made a presentation ... What is the reaction from X users and the consortium on these ideas? These ideas are not being discussed in the X Consortium (HP has not made a formal proposal, and has not pursued informal discussion). Some of the suggested reasons for window groups (e.g. drop shadows) can be dealt with by other mechanisms. For example, we here (at MIT) have an experimental extension that, while not intended to directly solve the things Phil talked about, can be used to solve some of them, and has other sexy uses as well.