Re: Arabic issue #26: The origin in RTL layout should be positioned at the right edge of the window

[Munzir Taha]

On Yaum al-Ahad 02 Safar 1426 19:43, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
>  On Saturday 12 March 2005 10:55, Munzir Taha wrote:
>  > Now what would happen is that the window would appear on the top-left
>  > corner of my screen which is ok for LTR languages but not for RTL
>  > languages. The correct layout is to have it on the top-right corner for
>  > RTL lanugages. The point is the same code should display on different
>  > positions according the layoutDirection. Am I missing something obvious?
>
>  You do. Positioning of windows on Unix/X11 isn't done by the application or
>  the toolkit, but by the window manager. 
Does this imply that there is a way to do it in MS Windows? How?

Matthias, you know better for sure but all I am asking for is to deal with RTL 
and LTR adequately. Isn't setGeometry a function of Qt or is it related to 
X11? I can now do:

        QTextEdit *text = new QTextEdit;
        text->setGeometry(200, 50, 500, 500); // Postive x,y For LTR

I want to be able to do something like

        QTextEdit *text = new QTextEdit;
        text->setGeometry(-200, -50, 500, 500); // Negative x,y for RTL

or something along this line. If it can be done _via Qt_ for LTR why not for 
RTL?

Note: If you convinced me this is not a bug in Qt, you would be surprised that 
you won't get rid of issue #26 since there is another issue *mistakenly* 
titled Arabic issue #26: QTextBrowser crashes with some web pages. Deal with 
it ;)

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Arabic issue #26: The origin in RTL layout should be positioned at the right edge of the window

[Munzir Taha]

في يوم الثّلاثاء 04 صفر 1426 17:53, كتب Munzir Taha:
>  On Yaum al-Ahad 02 Safar 1426 19:43, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
>  > On Saturday 12 March 2005 10:55, Munzir Taha wrote:
>  > > Now what would happen is that the window would appear on the top-left
>  > > corner of my screen which is ok for LTR languages but not for RTL
>  > > languages. The correct layout is to have it on the top-right corner for
>  > > RTL lanugages. The point is the same code should display on different
>  > > positions according the layoutDirection. Am I missing something
>  > > obvious?
>  >
>  > You do. Positioning of windows on Unix/X11 isn't done by the application
>  > or the toolkit, but by the window manager.
>
>  Does this imply that there is a way to do it in MS Windows? How?
>
>  Matthias, you know better for sure but all I am asking for is to deal with
>  RTL and LTR adequately. Isn't setGeometry a function of Qt or is it related
>  to X11? I can now do:
>
>          QTextEdit *text = new QTextEdit;
>          text->setGeometry(200, 50, 500, 500); // Postive x,y For LTR
>
>  I want to be able to do something like
>
>          QTextEdit *text = new QTextEdit;
>          text->setGeometry(-200, -50, 500, 500); // Negative x,y for RTL 
I am trying to clean the bugs a little so please confirm whether this is a 
valid bug or not. Though I was convinced that it's not practical nor 
necessarily useful to change the origin position but is using negative 
numbers to measure from the other side not useful?

In X11 I can say something like
-geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF

where I can use -XOFF where the right edge of the window is to be  placed  
XOFF  pixels  in from  the  right  edge of the screen. and -YOFF where ...

Shoud this go on setGeometry member function or is something one needs to code 
manually for some reason?


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