Re: Proposal to extend Application Window Properties

[Andy Lo-A-Foe <andy alsaplayer org>]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:35:29AM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote:

> why bother? define max height or width to be 0x7fff in the direction you don't
> care about. in X the max size of a window is 0xffff, BUT you can only access
> pixel co-ords for drawing up to 0x7ffff. so by doing this you effectively just
> say "the window can be as big as the area i can ever sensibly draw to". to stop
> resizing in one direction set the min and max for hat axis to the same. I don't
> see the point of adding more hints here as it's quite possible to do given even
> basic old-fashioned ICCCM.

Okay, so I can achieve the needed behaviour by using ICCCM
WM_NORMAL_HINTS. I will test this...

Thanks to everyone who replied!

Regards,
Andy