[Gambas-user] window resize help

[Benoit Minisini]

Le 20/12/2022 à 21:27, Bruce Steers a écrit :
> 
> 
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 18:38, Benoit Minisini 
> <benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org 
> <mailto:benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Le 20/12/2022 à 19:06, Benoit Minisini a écrit :
>      > Le 20/12/2022 à 18:00, Bruce Steers a écrit :
>      >> Could you check this out Ben as it might be a gambas bug.
>      >>
>      >> the basic code for the left edge movement is thus...
>      >>
>      >> Dim hRect As New Rect(Me.ScreenX, Me.ScreenY, Me.W, Me.H)
>      >> hRect.Left = Mouse.ScreenX
>      >> Me.Move(hRect.X, hRect.Y, hRect.W, hRect.H)
>      >>
>      >> Now apparently that should not move the right window edge but it
>     does
>      >> somewhat randomly jiggle it about.
>      >> Is it a bug or is there something i need to account for?
>      >>
>      >> Many thanks
>      >> BruceS
>      >>
>      >
>      > Before looking at anything, I can tell you that resizing a window
>     behind
>      > the window manager
> 
>     --> I mean by following the mouse.
> 
>     -- 
>     Benoît Minisini.
> 
> 
> Do you mean only a window with a proper window manager titlebar/border 
> should be resized by mouse?
> That's terrible.
> The routines i made very nearly works perfectly.

I mean that if you want to resize a window with the mouse, you must ask 
kindly the window manager so that it deals with the process by itself.

See https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qwindow.html#startSystemResize for example.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini.