Java applets and ConfigureRequest

[Koos Vriezen]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 05:22:43PM -0500, Leon Bottou wrote:
> On Saturday 06 December 2003 11:48 am, you wrote:
> > instead of sending a ConfigureNotifyEvent (tried setting the x and y to
> > zero too, like Leon suggests, but that didn't help - shouldn't this be
> > fixed btw.), the dimensions are set correctly.
> 
> This ConfigureNotifyEvent always seemed deeply suspicious to me.
> On the other hand, what Koos says makes good sense.
> When receiving a ConfigureRequest, we should configure 
> the window like a honest window manager. 
> 
> I do not know what is going on regarding the border width.
> (I am flying away for one week on Monday).  Instead of forcing 
> a border width of zero, we probably should leave it as it was.  
> Otherwise we might disturb the toolkit of the client application.

Well, I found a way arround it (making the frame undecorated). However it's
 strange a withdrawn window still thinks it has borders. For a well 
embedded applet the Insets are 3,29,3,3 and the bouds are -3,-29,...
This ConfigureRequest only comes for applets not embedded right, those that
are okay don't request it.
Anyway with undecorated frames, it works and borders are zero.  

> > Another thing is that calling XConfigureWindow blocks jvm 
> > for a second or two (XFlush didn't help).  
> 
> Strange. Maybe this forces a relayout of all the widgets ?

Java is slow, but not _that_ slow :). Actually I was more thinking 
of jvm waiting for a ConfigureNotify after requesting for a ConfigureRequest,
but I didn't try it (also kwin doesn't seem to do that, but I'm not sure)

Koos