bug#5721: Feature request: Function that returns absolute coordinates

[Jan Djärv]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu skrev 2010-07-15 09.59:
> > I think your "only" is quite big.  Lots of code, C and Lisp, does
> > that kind of calculation.
>
> In what sense can they be simplified if we used absolute scaled
> coordinate in Lisp as you say?

Then they wouldn't need to be changed at all.

>  Window system APIs requires us to
> specify absolute unscaled coordinates when creating windows or popup
> menus, so some conversions are necessary anyway.

That is the job of the platform specific code.

        Jan D.