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sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4014 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

I have code to get the screen resolution, but none to place a GUI in a give spot.
Having a GUI place itself would be really nice, even Geany remembers where you put it.
Zigbert may have something for this in his " GtkDialog - tips " thread, but I didn`t see it...

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5290 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

This is what says in the 'tips and tricks'

How to store window size/placement
>> This example shows how we can save settings for window size and placement for next startup. Be also aware that this solution makes it possible to let user rescale gui smaller than the default size. Normally you define the size of ie. a <tree>, and the user can only resize the gui larger, but when using <window default_height="$HEIGHT" default_width="$WIDTH">, you don't need to define <height> and <width> for the tree widget.

BarryK · Posted: Thu 11 Mar 2010, 04:29 Post subject:

The gtkdialog commandline also accepts '--geometry' option. I recently did '--geometry=540x0', which made the width 540 and the height the default.

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4014 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Thanks zigbert; I forgot to mention that it`s gtkdalog2, I can`t get gtkdialog3 to work..!
I tried all these to get info on my app., it can`t find it.

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3033 Location: Oregon

sunburnt,

See my post on position of a window Here.

It should help to explain how to position a window using the -geometry option.

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3033 Location: Oregon

To use xwininfo, Start your program and then open a terminal while your program windows are displayed.
In the terminal window, type "xwininfo -name [name that appears at top of xwindow you want to check].
Do not use "program="
I just tried it and it works.

For example, if the Title of your window is "DRIVEMAN" you would type "xwininfo -name DRIVEMAN" in the terminal window.

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4014 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Thanks 8-bit; The "use the name in the window`s tile bar" worked.
My app`s. title bar has " DM " in it as the GUI is so small.
I assumed that it used the info from " ps ".

Apps. like Geany are a problem because the title changes with the file that`s loaded into it.
And I see no way to find out what file is loaded into Geany...

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4014 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

I finally figured out that " -geometry 0x0+$X+$Y " goes like this:

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3033 Location: Oregon

zigbert,
Your window size and position example fails for me.
No /tmp/geometry file is written.
Also, after playing a little with it, I got it to write that file, but on the next run of the program example, nothing had changed as to window size and position.
This is after resizing and moving the window.

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4014 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

I see what`s going on in zigberts example though I haven`t tried it out.
Without all gtkDialog`s info about the " <action signal= " and other "tags", it`s hell using it.
Fortunately gtkDialog2 is fine for such a simple GUI as this.
Here`s the gtkDialog2 code I came up with that works:

seaside · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 841

ON the example of window placement from "tips and tricks"

If you change this -

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4014 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

To: seaside, 8-bit, zigbert and all others who "try" to use gtkDialog... : (

Years ago I make script libraries for handling: files, file systems, lists, and gtkDialog.
Zigbert`s forum thread on gtkDialog-Tips has me thinking that it all needs to be "collected".
My gtkDialog library made writing GUIs very simple, and it gathered the code in one place.
Instead of the XML style syntax of gtkDialog it`s a simple script syntax, a new GUI language.
A nice feature of it is that it can combine separate GUI files into one TabPanel GUI file.

Simply... GUI script code calls library file functions that write gtkDialog code to a file.
The library I made produces complete ready to run gtkDialog script files.

If there`s any interest in this idea, post here and I`ll start a new thread for it... Terry

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1776

Oh, definitely! I've done some similar work creating 'widgets' for xdialog and some that would let you use dialog or xdialog using the same code. It would be niice to have some universal functions which could be translated into dialg/xdialog/gtkdialog/xmessage/gmessage as the need/desire/availability dictated.
Post what you've got!

BarryK · Posted: Fri 12 Mar 2010, 18:23 Post subject:

sunburnt,
The intention is to phase-out gtkdialog2 sometime. I might have one or two scripts that still use gtkdialog2.

I recall that --geometry was buggy in earlier versions of gtkdialog, don't recall specifically about our gtkdialog2 though.

gtkdialog3 should work. It really is the best to use, the very latest from source patched by gposil.

CORRECTION: That was Patriot who patched gtkdialog3.

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3845

@Barry - I did a search over /usr and no current scripts contained gtkdialog2 last time I checked (in 4.4) ... it can probably go already.

@sunburnt - I wish you would have posted your gui - gui before I wrote my bbgui template. Still would love to see it. (bbgui is just a script that builds your gui using only a set of numbered variables and uses that info to run a command line tool)

p.s. I also had issues with gtkdialog3 positioning as it is documented once before - heightxwidth was fine but positioning was odd - turns out + and - are not interchangeable as they are in jwm so to position in the bottom right I had to grep & cut xorg.conf to get the screen resolution and subtract height and width