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24.4; Font size change doesn't update (window-total-width)

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: steve <at> sanityinc.com, jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se, 19972 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19972: Font size change doesn't update (window-total-width)
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:36:02 +0100

>> There should be one for a normally sized frame.
>
> We don't do anything with it, probably because the frame was already
> resized.

Precisely.

> IOW, we don't wait with a resize until we get a notification, but
> instead resize the frame itself, and then might resize again when we
> receive WM_SIZE.  Question: why not wait for WM_SIZE, and only resize
> after it arrives?  That would emulate better what X does, and also
> prevent the second resize.  No?

Usually there's no second resize because Windows does what we asked for.
And the first resize is here to fix bug#16028.

>> When I asked you back then whether we could implement something similar
>> to the X code on Windows you told me that Windows doesn't have anything
>> comparable to ConfigureNotify so I didn't pursue the idea any further.
>
> I don't remember saying that (and don't know X well enough to make
> such assertions to begin with), but in any case, you just explained
> that I was wrong, and there is a Windows message equivalent to
> ConfigureNotify.

Which?

martin

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