From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2004-03-19T01:17:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Thinking about a window-packing algorithm...

Is the algorithm used in 'Expose' available somewhere? That could be a
good starting point.

Guillaume.

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 03:11, Zachary P. Landau wrote:
> > I'm packing child windows into a larger window (MDI fashion).
> > Imagine a bulletin board covered by a bunch of overlapping items.
> > 
> > I want to find a "reasonable" way to position the smaller windows.
> > 
> > Ideally part of each one would be exposed. For real-world values,
> > that would be impossible, since the total area of the small windows
> > would far exceed the total area of the large one.
> 
> Are you familiar with sawfish? It has a 'best-fit' window placement mode
> similar to what you describe. It is written in rep, a lisp dialect, but
> hopefully it will be easy enough for you to follow. I put the applicable
> file at http://kapheine.hypa.net/tmp/smart.jl. If you snag the sawfish
> distribution (http://sawfish.sourceforge.net) there are a couple other
> placement modes in lisp/sawfish/wm/placement/: off-center, stagger, and
> top-left. But I think smart is what you want.
> 
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> Zachary P. Landau <kapheine@hypa.net>
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