Window size does not display on resize

[eteran]

Window size does not display on resize

[eteran]

Interesting. I've seen some apps have that feature before, but never have seen nedit have it ...I always figured it was a WM thing!

Either way, I like this feature when it's there, so I'll look into working it in there.

[jabuzz]

It is a WM thing, but the WM only knows the size of the window in pixels, which while old school WM's would display while resizing windows is not terribly useful. An app like xterm, nedit etc. however where knowing the size in characters of the window is useful can send hints to the WM as to what is happening. In nedit this is handled by UpdateWMSizeHints in window.c that is I think called whenever the window is resized.

[eteran]

Oh, thanks for the hint! I'll look into that ASAP

[eteran]

OK, using the size hints is a bit of a rat's nest of complexity because the WM uses the size of the main window (not the text widget) and it's non-trivial to tell X11 via Qt what the "size increment" is, but to exclude the window frame size.

So, I've copied the solution that Konsole uses (which is to manually display the size on the widget for a second). You can enable this by adding the following to the config.ini file (~/.config/nedit-ng/config.ini):

nedit.showResizeNotification = true

Please re-open the issue if this proves to be insufficient.

[eteran]

(Also, as a bonus, with this solution, it will display the size of each pane if multiple panes are open!

[jabuzz]

That works great, thanks. The only minor (and it is really rather minor) annoyance is that it displays the size at startup, which is unnecessary because it always 80x25.

[eteran]

Ok, I can look I to suppressing it when it's a new window. I do t think that'll be too hard.