OpenEuphoria

Re: getClientRect

• Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> May 16, 2003
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> > getClientRect ( integer ControlId )
> > Get uncovered portion of the client area.
> > Returns: { x1, y1, x2, y2 }
> >
> > If I not mistaken, it should be
> > {x, y, width, height} ??
> >
>
> Actually that turns out not to be the case. This routine returns {Left,
Top,
> Right, Bottom} coordinates. Not the way I'd do it but that's Windows for
> you.
>
> Actually, I'll enhance the return value so it returns {Left, Top, Right,
> Bottom, Width, Height}.

Isn't that redundant? Why not make the user figure the Width and Height? I
know it's very very few cycles to do the calculation in the library, but
redundancy or duplicity doesn't seem right to me. :)

I'm just wondering what your reasoning was... not complaining!!!