[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Patch for staff client window to open other than maximized

[Jason Boyer]

It would be nice if it behaved like other apps and save the current size /
position of the window when closing it, and automatically restoring that the
next time a window is opened. It sounds like this patch is already over
halfway there already.

Jason

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Jason Boyer, IT Specialist
Jackson County Public Library
303 W Second St
Seymour, IN 47274

jasonb at myjclibrary.org



On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley <
lebbeous at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hello, list,
>
> Many of you will be aware that after logging in to the Evergreen staff
> client, the main window that opens up does so in a maximized state. While
> this is probably optimal for many workstations, it isn't *always* optimal,
> and I have long wanted to have an option to configure whether it opens
> maximized or not.
>
> Here's a quick patch against trunk that allows for that.   With this in
> place, one can add a short file called "window_customization" to one's
> per-user openils profile chrome directory, the contents of which should look
> something like:
>
> {
>    "maximized": false,
>    "width": 800,
>    "height": 600
> }
>
> including the curly braces.
>
> Any of those inner three lines can be omitted if you wish to accept the
> existing defaults, and of course you can substitute any reasonable number of
> pixels for 800 and 600 above.  Those are just examples.
>
> That openils profile chrome directory that I mentioned, on UNIX
> workstations, should be located at a path resembling
>
> ~/.openils/open_ils_staff_client/SOME_CHARACTERS.default/chrome
>
> where SOME_CHARACTERS represents some string of characters, mostly
> hexadecimal digits, which vary from installation to installation.
>
> I'm not sure what the equivalent location is for Windows or Mac, but I'm
> hoping some helpful soul will post them in a reply to the list.
>
> Thanks for any feedback!
> --
> Lebbeous
>
>
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> diff --git Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/chrome/content/main/menu_frame.xul
> Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/chrome/content/main/menu_frame.xul
> index 9b87990..341c7e3 100644
> --- Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/chrome/content/main/menu_frame.xul
> +++ Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/chrome/content/main/menu_frame.xul
> @@ -67,6 +67,33 @@
>             // idleService.removeIdleObserver(idleObserver, delay);
>             // ... but why would we?
>         }
> +        function apply_window_customization() {
> +            JSAN.use("util.file");
> +            var file = new util.file("window_customization");
> +            if (file._file.exists()) {
> +                var obj = file.get_object();
> +                if (obj) {
> +                    var w = document.getElementById("menu_frame_win");
> +
> +                    for (var key in obj) {
> +                        switch(key) {
> +                            case "maximized":
> +                                if (!obj[key])
> +                                    w.setAttribute("sizemode", "normal");
> +                                break;
> +                            case "width":
> +                            case "height":
> +                                    w.setAttribute(key, obj[key]);
> +                                break;
> +                            default:
> +                                /* ignore other keys */
> +                                break;
> +                        }
> +                    }
> +                }
> +                file.close();
> +            }
> +        }
>         function my_init() {
>             try {
>
> @@ -80,6 +107,7 @@
>                 JSAN.use('util.error'); g.error = new util.error();
>                 g.error.sdump('D_TRACE','my_init() for menu_frame.xul');
>
> +                apply_window_customization();
>                 g.cgi = new CGI();
>
>                 JSAN.use('main.menu'); g.menu = new main.menu();
>
>
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