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Feature request: Function that returns absolute coordinates

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From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: 5721 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, IRIE Shinsuke <irieshinsuke <at> yahoo.co.jp>
Subject: bug#5721: Feature request: Function that returns absolute coordinates
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:25:32 +0900

>>>>> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:32:54 +0200, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se> said:

>>> Placing frames based on the position of another frame is the only
>>> operation I can think of that uses coordinates from one frame and
>>> applies it to another.
>> 
>> And you introduce yet another special function for that purpose?

> I don't know what you mean by "yet another".  I already purposed
> functions for frame placement by unscaled coords.  Why is that such
> a burdon, but introducing a whole series of parallel functions like
> pos-x-y et.al isn't?

Neither the frame placement function nor
window-(inside-)absolute-pixel-edges is necessary if we use the
absolute unscaled coordinate system and introduce a function parallel
to pos-x-y, which is anyway necessary for external programs' use.

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp

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