Chris Muller-4 wrote
> Today I noticed that in -iconic launched images, clicks register about
> 1cm below where I click, rendering the image very difficult to use.
> 
> To reproduce, take a trunk image, 1) load OSProcess, 2) maximize the
> window, 3) save and exit the image.
> 
> Now, from Linux command line, relaunch the image as I do my background
> worker images:
> 
>    squeak -vm display=X11 -iconic myImage.image &
> 
> It launches iconic, click the icon in the taskbar to open it.  Now
> click anywhere on the desktop, and notice the events being triggered
> well below the mouse pointer.  Both hand position and clicks, as
> well...
> 
>  - Chris
> 
> PS -- Why I ever lauch "-iconic", I have several apps which divide up
> a large task and launch background Squeak images to tackle, each, a
> portion of the task.  When the background images launch, I don't want
> them to pop up on top of what I'm working on, but still be there
> (e.g., not headless) so I can see them come-and-go in the TaskBar or
> in case there's a problem.

Hi Chris,

what's the concept of an application being "iconic"? No windows borders?
"Start minimized"?

Anyway, this looks like an event coordinate mapping problem in the
X11-specific portion in the VM. So, this rather belongs to the "squeak-vm"
list. :-)

Best,
Marcel



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