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Feature request: Function that returns absolute coordinates

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Cc: 5721 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, IRIE Shinsuke <irieshinsuke <at> yahoo.co.jp>
Subject: bug#5721: Feature request: Function that returns absolute coordinates
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:06:22 +0200

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu skrev 2010-07-15 09.59:
>
>> I think your "only" is quite big.  Lots of code, C and Lisp, does
>> that kind of calculation.
>
> In what sense can they be simplified if we used absolute scaled
> coordinate in Lisp as you say?

Then they wouldn't need to be changed at all.

>  Window system APIs requires us to
> specify absolute unscaled coordinates when creating windows or popup
> menus, so some conversions are necessary anyway.
>

That is the job of the platform specific code.

	Jan D.

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