Re: do I need a college educ

["Steve Casner" <Steve_Casner@qmgate.arc.nasa.gov>]

        Reply to:   RE>do I need a college education to 
> philg asks about window-layer and window-shown-p

window-shown-p just determines whether or not the window exists on the screen
somewhere, possibly under a pile of other windows.

if you want to determine window occlusions, you'll have to hack that yourself. 
It's not that bad though, you just have to keep track of the size and position
of each window and know your screen parameters.  These fns and vars should do
it all:

(view-size *myWin*)
(view-position *myWin*)
*screen-height*
*screen-width*

So if window A is 100 x 100 and at position #@(0 0) and window B is 50 x 50 and
also at #@(0 0), then of course you won't see window B.  It IS there though,
and a call to window-shown-p on window B returns ...... ?   T-e-e-e


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Date: 8/17/1994 11:59 PM
To: Steve Casner
From: philg@mit.edu

The documentation for WINDOW-SHOWN-P says that it "returns true if the
window is visible , and false it is hidden".

This seems to return t for me when I give it any of the windows
returned by (WINDOWS), i.e., for any window in the system even if it
is covered by five other windows.

I can't use WINDOW-LAYER either because if I have six windows all in
different spots on a big screen, they are all visible as far as I'm
concerned yet they all report themselves as being in different layers.

Is there an easy way to determine if part or all of a window is in
fact visible to a user?  And what is the purpose of WINDOW-SHOWN-P?

Thanks,



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From: philg@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Philip Greenspun)
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Subject: do I need a college education to understand WINDOW-SHOWN-P?
Date: 18 Aug 94 00:29:47
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