Window.getGeometry

Any of the return location arguments to this function may be %NULL, if you aren’t interested in getting the value of that field.

The X and Y coordinates returned are relative to the parent window of @window, which for toplevels usually means relative to the window decorations (titlebar, etc.) rather than relative to the root window (screen-size background window).

On the X11 platform, the geometry is obtained from the X server, so reflects the latest position of @window; this may be out-of-sync with the position of @window delivered in the most-recently-processed #GdkEventConfigure. gdk_window_get_position() in contrast gets the position from the most recent configure event.

Note: If @window is not a toplevel, it is much better to call gdk_window_get_position(), gdk_window_get_width() and gdk_window_get_height() instead, because it avoids the roundtrip to the X server and because these functions support the full 32-bit coordinate space, whereas gdk_window_get_geometry() is restricted to the 16-bit coordinates of X11.

class Window
void
getGeometry
(
out int x
,
out int y
,
out int width
,
out int height
)

Parameters

x int

return location for X coordinate of window (relative to its parent)

y int

return location for Y coordinate of window (relative to its parent)

width int

return location for width of window

height int

return location for height of window

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