[Design] dialog.CenterOnSCreen() ?

[Mimi Yin]

More list gardening...

Where are we on this issue? Do we have an answer re: what would  
happen if we centered dialogs on the Chandler window, if the window  
is docked?

Mimi

On Feb 7, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Robin Dunn wrote:

> Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>
>> But I also realized CenterOnParent() would not help in your scenario,
>> because the dialogs would just stack on top of each other, albeit all
>> centered on Chandler. Dialogs should center on Chandler, except when
>> there already is such a window their placement should cascade. I  
>> wonder
>> if Center() method does that, or would they cascade automatically  
>> if you
>> didn't call anything?
>
> If you don't call anything and don't specify an actual position,  
> then the dialog will be positioned by whatever is the platform  
> default.  On Linux that depends on the window manager's placement  
> rules, it could be cascading, wherever there is some empty space,  
> or even random.   On Windows they will likely be cascaded,  
> depending on where the last default/cascaded window was  
> positioned.  On Mac it looks like it is defaulting to the upper- 
> left corner of the screen, just below the menu bar, so they would  
> end up stacked on each other there.  I'll check and see if that is  
> something that wxWidgets is explicitly doing or if that is really  
> the default.
>
> BTW, since wx.MessageDialog and some of the other common dialogs  
> are not a real dialog but rather just a thin wrapper around the  
> system message API, then they will follow their own rules no matter  
> what you specify for a position.  For example, on Windows the  
> wx.MessageDialog is always centered on screen, but the  
> wx.FileDialog is always centered on its parent.
>
>
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