browning@nas.nasa.gov (David S. Browning) (10/17/90)
In IRIX 3.2 running 4Sight 1.4 on a 4D/60. (No IRIX 3.3 'till I get bigger disks.) I'd like to extract position and size information from the windows that are currently on my screen (not just their prefposition's). After I move the windows around so they're how I want them, I want to know what size and position coordinates to put in my user.ps file so they will come up the same way next time. Suntools has "toolplaces," X11 has "xwininfo." Is there something similar for 4Sight (rather, NeWS)? -- David -- |============================================================================| | Internet: browning@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov Phone: (415) 604-4321 | | UUCP: {hplabs, mailrus, ucbvax, etc.}!ames!amelia!browning | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) (10/18/90)
In article <1990Oct17.005518.26123@nas.nasa.gov>, browning@nas.nasa.gov (David S. Browning) writes: |> |> In IRIX 3.2 running 4Sight 1.4 on a 4D/60. |> (No IRIX 3.3 'till I get bigger disks.) |> |> I'd like to extract position and size information from the windows that |> are currently on my screen (not just their prefposition's). After I |> move the windows around so they're how I want them, I want to know what |> size and position coordinates to put in my user.ps file so they will |> come up the same way next time. Suntools has "toolplaces," X11 has |> "xwininfo." Is there something similar for 4Sight (rather, NeWS)? In ~4Dgifts/.4sight there is a file called prefpos.ps. This file, which can be loaded from your user.ps, adds an entry to the window frame menu of all your windows that saves the windows position in a file in a form understood by the window manager so that it will place the window in the same place next time. Look at the READM in ~4Dgifts/.4sight and the comments in the file for more information. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."
karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU (10/19/90)
> >I'd like to extract position and size information from the windows that >are currently on my screen (not just their prefposition's). After I >move the windows around so they're how I want them, I want to know what >size and position coordinates to put in my user.ps file so they will >come up the same way next time. Suntools has "toolplaces," X11 has >"xwininfo." Is there something similar for 4Sight (rather, NeWS)? > >-- David I second this request. There is no similar mechanism that I am aware of for this in 4sight. This should a part of the next release of 4sight (5sight ?). I would like to place tools, icons, and programs on my desk without fooling with the co-ords. For my own development work, I use a wrapper for winopen that reads in a file containing the window placement. For gexit, I use a wrapper that saves the window position prior to closing for use in the next instance of the program. If there is interest in my hack, I will post it (That also means I have to make it presentable, but I want this functionality, and dont see it comming from sgi). Then each winopen("foo") will have associated with it an icon image file("foo.icon") and an ascii editable size and placement file ("foo.prefs"). The real solution would be a system program that would take any window program and extract its position and size. That might be easier than re- writing all of the tools to take window size/position placement/report arguments. dan. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | karron@nyu.edu Dan Karron | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue \ \ Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 \**\ <2> 10896 <3> <your-number-here> | | (212) 340 5210 \**\__________________________________________ | | Please Note :Soon to move to dan@karron.med.nyu.edu 128.122.135.3 (Mid Oct)| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854") (12/08/90)
You mentioned something about a file ~4Dgifts/.4sight/prefpos.ps and it was suppose to set things up like Sun's toolplaces. I checked and neither of our machines have this file. They are both running 3.3.1 (ones a 210VGX, the other 320VGX) Does this file also save the icons position? What I would like is something like the Sun's command for saving screen lay out. When you save the layout, you save the entire "desktop". Not only is the postition of windows and icons saved, but also what programs are running. So the next time you log in, everything is set up the same as when you last save the "desktop". Does anyone have this set up? -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 361 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov