I don't know of any difference in the connotation of the two words, but "location" would probably sound a bit odd to anyone who spends a lot of time with graphics code. If you want to also be explicit about an object's orientation, "translation" is also a synonym for position/ location that you might use.
You might also want to bug Dan Amelang from Viewpoints to see if he's recently written anything about Gezira (roughly speaking, a more advanced version of Cairo).
Cheers, Josh
On Jan 17, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
Hi all.
I'm (still) designing a new Canvas API (http://gulik.pbwiki.com/ Canvas).
When describing screen coordinates, which is a better term to use: "location" or "position"? Is there a technical difference between these words that I don't know about?
Gulik.
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