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Re: tellFinderAboutChange and window Rect

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tellFinderAboutChange was nopped as of 6.0.1 (in favor of GS/OS's 
volume change notifications). Of course ProDOS only has 1 second file 
time granularity so it doesn't work all the time.


On 2018-01-04 14:30:14 +0000, vavruska@gmail.com said:

> I am writing a finderExt and when I send the request 
> tellFinderAboutChange sometimes it work, sometimes it doesn't. I tried 
> moving the update so it happens during a finderSaysIdle since my send 
> request was happening during a finderSaysKeyHit. I am thinking about 
> just closing and opening the windows using 
> tellFinderCloseWindow/tellFinderOpenWindow unless someone has a better 
> idea.
> 
> Also, I am trying to get window rect of a finder window. If I look into 
> the window.PortInfo I see a boundsRect but that has negative numbers in 
> it. I understand that it is relations to the QuickDraw grid. I just 
> can't seem to find out where (0,0) of the screen is so I can convert 
> this to local coordinated.  I want to plug values in WhooshRect so that 
> the WhooshRect goes from the outer rect of the window to the middle of 
> the window.
> 
> Thanks for any insite.

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tellFinderAboutChange and window Rect vavruska@gmail.com - 2018-01-04 06:30 -0800
  Re: tellFinderAboutChange and window Rect Marco Verpelli <mverpelli@libero.it> - 2018-01-04 07:08 -0800
    Re: tellFinderAboutChange and window Rect vavruska@gmail.com - 2018-01-04 07:54 -0800
  Re: tellFinderAboutChange and window Rect Kelvin Sherlock <email@domain.com> - 2018-01-04 11:41 -0500
    Re: tellFinderAboutChange and window Rect Chris Vavruska <vavruska@gmail.com> - 2018-01-04 08:55 -0800
      Re: tellFinderAboutChange and window Rect Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2018-01-04 15:32 -0800
        Re: tellFinderAboutChange and window Rect David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com> - 2018-01-04 21:43 -0500
        Re: tellFinderAboutChange and window Rect Chris Vavruska <vavruska@gmail.com> - 2018-01-05 06:37 -0800

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