Re: RealDeal patch to Matchbox 0.50

on Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:32:17AM +0200, Raphael J. Schmid wrote:
> 
> Well, it contains the modifications I made to Matchbox in order to
> use it with the program you saw screenshots of. That is, take four
> placement values as commandline arguments and put the window _there_
> instead of making it 'full'screen.
>

Aha :-) 

Have you tried doing this kind of thing with a custom theme - and just
setting main window borders to be very big ? If not I think adding
support for this kind of thing via themes may be the best way.

 
> Also, I realize the usage of a global variable is no good style.
> Just, how would one handle the params all the way through to the
> existing Matchbox parser and then from there to
> main_client_move_resize()?
> 

Just as your extras to the main 'Wm' struct, most funcs can get at
this via being passed it directly or the clients ref to it. 

> 
> Sorry for all the newbie questions; just kinda hard stuff to me,
> since at school we use Borland and the teacher is confident that
> using indentation was "bad, American" style.
> 

Hey, please dont be sorry ! Theres nothing wrong with the patch ( and
thanks for cleaning up the annoying warning ), we just need to figure
out the best way to support this kind of thing. 


Many thanks;

  -- Matthew