Re: Bugs in Graphics.HGL.Window and its documentation

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 10:19 -0700, Kevin Van Horn wrote:

The function openWindowEx seems to ignore its second argument (optional initial position of window). Here is the test program to illustrate this, which I ran on Mac OS X (Tiger), using hugs:

Placing a window in a particular initial position on X11 (which is what HGL on OSX uses) can only ever be best effort. The window manager is free to ignore any initial placement hint that a window asks for. Some window managers respect it others do not. There's nothing you can do (except change or patch your window manager) Duncan