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| Posted by
| Seritay
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| Tue 13 Nov 2012 12:53 PM (UTC) |
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| Hello,
I am using mini-windows to develop a client (more or less), and I've ran into a small issue I can't quite figure out how to solve.
I've managed to create a miniwindow, and use the "movewindow" library to allow it to be movable. This is awesome. However, I'm using the TextRectangle to resize the output window. Whenever I try to initialize the movewindow pack for that as well, I keep getting errors such as "no window with the name X exists".
I can verify the window doesn't exist using the code found on http://www.mushclient.com/mushclient/mw_creation.htm to print out the available window names. So my question is this.. how can I make the output window resizable/draggable like a miniwindow implementing the movewindow library? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Twisol
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| Reply #1 on Tue 13 Nov 2012 04:57 PM (UTC) |
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| | The output window, sadly, isn't a miniwindow, so the API for manipulating it is somewhat limited. Your best bet would be to create a miniwindow that either covers the whole output window, or always remains under the user's mouse, and handles those miniwindow events via functions like TextRectangle. That has a pretty high probability of conflicting with all the other miniwindows, so you'd need to name it something (miniwindows are sorted in lexicographical order) that puts it behind everything else. |
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GitHub: http://github.com/Twisol | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #2 on Tue 13 Nov 2012 09:07 PM (UTC) |
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| Fiendish has made the output window in the Aardwolf client (which is MUSHclient with some rather fancy plugins) to be drag-able.
You could look at how he did that (I suspect an invisible miniwindow at the top which accepts the mouse click). As Twisol said, the output area isn't actually a miniwindow so you can't use the miniwindow functions on it directly. You could overlay miniwindows on top of it if you wanted to add extra graphics etc.
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Fiendish
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| Reply #3 on Fri 16 Nov 2012 11:54 AM (UTC) |
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I suspect an invisible miniwindow at the top which accepts the mouse click This is correct. Likewise with resizing. |
https://github.com/fiendish/aardwolfclientpackage | | Top |
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