Re: getting the origin of a window

From: "Jacques Le Normand" <[email protected]>

> I need to get to get the coordinates of a position in a textview. Consider
> this function:
> 
> let get_coordinates_at_offset buffer view i =
>   let iter =  buffer#get_iter (`OFFSET i) in
>   let rectangle = view#get_iter_location iter in
>   let x_origin,y_origin = Gdk.Window.get_position w#misc#window in
>   (rectangle.x+x_origin,rectangle.y+y_origin)
> 
> which takes a textbuffer and a textview and an offset and returns the (x,y)
> coordinate of the offset. Is this correct? Or do I need
> gtk_window_get_position(window,&x,&y) ?

I'm not sure why you need the absolute coordinates of the position
rather than the relative, but this doesn't seem to require
gtk_window_get_position.

	Jacques