How to set ADE-XL/Maestro to a given position and size

skillUserAndrew Beckett

Good morning,

I have discovered a linux command (maybe you know it) that gives both the coordinates and dimensions of a given window.

So, you can do the following:

1. position and stretch any window the way you want
2. enter, on a linux terminal, the command "xwininfo"
3. click the window you would like to get the information from

You should end up with a result like the one below.

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
would like information by clicking the
mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x2400003 "Terminal"

Absolute upper-left X: 2
Absolute upper-left Y: 57
Relative upper-left X: 2
Relative upper-left Y: 26
Width: 1917
Height: 1067
Depth: 24
Visual: 0x23
Visual Class: TrueColor
Border width: 0
Class: InputOutput
Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Backing Store State: NotUseful
Save Under State: no
Map State: IsViewable
Override Redirect State: no
Corners: +2+57 -1921+57 -1921-54 +2-54
-geometry 190x52+0+31

Best regards,

Pedro

PS: I am sorry if you already knew this.

skillUserAndrew Beckett

Good morning,

I have discovered a linux command (maybe you know it) that gives both the coordinates and dimensions of a given window.

So, you can do the following:

1. position and stretch any window the way you want
2. enter, on a linux terminal, the command "xwininfo"
3. click the window you would like to get the information from

You should end up with a result like the one below.

xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
would like information by clicking the
mouse in that window.

xwininfo: Window id: 0x2400003 "Terminal"

Absolute upper-left X: 2
Absolute upper-left Y: 57
Relative upper-left X: 2
Relative upper-left Y: 26
Width: 1917
Height: 1067
Depth: 24
Visual: 0x23
Visual Class: TrueColor
Border width: 0
Class: InputOutput
Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Backing Store State: NotUseful
Save Under State: no
Map State: IsViewable
Override Redirect State: no
Corners: +2+57 -1921+57 -1921-54 +2-54
-geometry 190x52+0+31

Best regards,

Pedro

PS: I am sorry if you already knew this.

Or rather more simply, in Virtuoso you can find this out using:

hiGetAbsWindowScreenBBox(hiGetCurrentWindow())

(the numbers are slightly different because it doesn't include all the window manager decorations, I believe). You can move the window using hiResizeWindow(...)

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew.

Is it possible to associate those instructions to an event triggered when the maximize button is pressed?
The goal of all of this is to resize the window for a given size, without maximizing it.

The reason behind this, is that I am using  VNC Viewer to control multiple monitors, buy they are seen as one monitor. Anytime I pressed the maximize button will span the windows across all monitors.

So I would like to redefine what the maximize button does to fit one screen only.

Thanks. 

netbug said:

Is it possible to associate those instructions to an event triggered when the maximize button is pressed?

No, sorry. There's no trigger mechanism for this. The maximise button is part of the window manager, and not directly accessible by Virtuoso. I did wonder whether hiRegZoomPanProc would help, but maximise doesn't necessarily trigger a redraw, so it doesn't get called.

Andrew.

Thanks for looking at this. :-)

Best regards,

Pedro

This one is off-topic.

Have you ever thought of writing a book about SKILL? I would buy it. :-)

Hi Pedro,

I've considered it - the main challenge would be finding the time. Writing a book takes quite a bit of time and juggling that with all the other things I do would be a challenge. Many years ago I considered (and started) co-writing a book on another EDA topic, but it was just going to be a huge time sync. Maybe I'll have another think about it (no promises!).

Anyway, if you've not seen it, maybe in the meantime this video of a webinar I presented last year might be of interest: Writing Good SKILL Code

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for answering. :-)

I really hope that, someday, you'll find the time to write the book. From my point of view, having a book on this subject would be a very big plus for all community.

Regarding the video, I haven't seen it yet, but I will.

Best regards,

Pedro