TICKIT_WIN...S_GEOMETRY(3)

💖 TICKIT_WIN...S_GEOMETRY(3) 💖

Library Functions Manual · the tickit girlies' window geometry saga

✨ NAME ✨

tickit_window_get_abs_geometry — query the absolute position of a window

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <tickit.h>

TickitRect tickit_window_get_abs_geometry(const TickitWindow *win);

Link with -ltickit.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so bestie, listen. tickit_window_get_abs_geometry() hands you back a TickitRect structure, and inside that lil guy is the absolute position of the window you passed in — absolute meaning within the underlying terminal, like the real actual coordinates, not the fake ones. 💅

Now here's the tea. If your window is a root window, or an immediate child of one, then this absolute geometry is literally the same as its position given by tickit_window_get_geometry(3). Same numbers, no cap. ✨

But for windows that are nested further down? That's where it gets spicy. The function takes account of the position of its parents — so it walks up the whole family tree and gives you the true terminal-relative spot. It's giving ancestry.com but for rectangles. 🌈

💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• tickit_window_new(3)
• tickit_window_get_geometry(3)
• tickit_window_reposition(3)
• tickit_window(7)
• tickit(7)

and that's the whole page, bestie — it lives in the Library Functions Manual under the name TICKIT_WIN...S_GEOMETRY(3), no date on this one so don't come for me 😭, go forth and query those absolute coordinates, periodt 💖✨🎀