Re: getting the origin of a window

I want to place another window at those coordinates, similar to what
spellcheckers do (they place a window beside a word and give you possible
options)

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Jacques Garrigue <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>

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