Positioning Floating Windows via Mel

[mhovland]

To position a window, you use the -tlc (top left corner) flag when you create the window.

window -t "testWin" -tlc 250 250 -h 150 -w 150 testWin;

To reposition the window might be more difficult, you can try editing the position of the window by editing the -tlc flag, and resize the window by editing the -h and -w flags, after the window is created, but you may have to hide the window and reshow it. I haven't tried this.

But...there is always a "but" isn't there? This will be over-ridden if the preferences have the "Remember window size and positions" set to true. You can check this in Setting and Preferences.

[bjoern]

thanks! I'll check this out

[bjoern]

mhh, didn't worked.
window -t "GraphEditor" -tlc 250 250 -h 150 -w 150 GraphEditor;
can you tell what's wrong here? :)

[YourDaftPunk]

Add the "-vis yes" argument to toggle its visibility:
window -t "GraphEditorVis" -vis yes -tlc 250 250 -h 150 -w 150 GraphEditorVis;

There is also a showWindow command apparently.

I've never created a window before, but it was in the documentation man! :)

[mhovland]

DaftPunk is correct. Although I have never used the -vis flag on creation of the window.

My method is whenever I call the window command, to make sure I immediately add the showWindow command.

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