[Solved] Position of Dialog Window (pixels/map appfonts)

[LukeBB]

My goal: to display the dialog window at a reasonable place on a monitor. I would like to detect the currently active Libre Office window and display the dialog window in the middle of it (using Python). Or some other method not to display the window in some random corner, other monitor etc. but reasonably on the place where the user is currently working.

To find current position and dimensions of the current active Libre Office window in pixels is not a problem:

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from com.sun.star.awt import PosSize
active_window = self.desktop.getCurrentFrame().getContainerWindow()
pos_size = active_window.getPosSize()
x_current_lo_window = pos_size.X
y_current_lo_window = pos_size.Y
width_current_lo_window = pos_size.Width
height_current_lo_window = pos_size.Height

But to display the dialog window at X and Y pixels is a problem, because we can not use pixels but we have to use "Map AppFont" units.

This: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docume ... Properties says: "PositionX, PositionY...they use the Map AppFont unit. Map AppFont units are device and resolution independent. One Map AppFont unit is equal to one eighth of the average character (Systemfont) height and one quarter of the average character width. The dialog editor also uses Map AppFont units, and sets their values automatically."

My code to display the windows is:

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dialog_model = self.smgr.createInstanceWithContext('com.sun.star.awt.UnoControlDialogModel', self.ctx)
dialog_model.PositionX = 200
dialog_model.PositionY = 200

...but I do not want to display the window at some weird Map AppFonts unit but pixels. And it must work on various different computers, not just mine. On my personal computer 1 x Mapp AppFont = 1.99 pixels. 1 Map AppFont = 1.6 pixels. I need a general function to display the dialog on X and Y in pixels. Or a function to find, how much is 1 Map AppFont on the current PC. Or at least a function to get this "Systemfont" average dimenstions so I can do some math. Please, would anyone know how to place my dialog window as I want?

[JeJe]

Is easy, setpossize is in pixels.

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active_window.setPosSize 100,100,500,500,15

https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/com ... setPosSize

[JPL]

Examine next list of methods:

https://api.libreoffice.org/docs/idl/re ... rsion.html

JPL

[JeJe]

The map appfont is not relevant.

The link mentioning that is talking about positioning controls.

Note: If setpossize doesn't quite give what you want its because its not the position of the border/titlebar - but the inner window excluding those.

Edit:

if you want to adjust for those compare

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.ContainerWindow.accessiblecontext.LocationOnScreen

with

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.ContainerWindow.accessiblecontext.location

[LukeBB]

Thank you so much Jeje! This is solved. The solution to convert pixels to Map AppFont is here and works perfectly well:

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    def pixels_xy_to_mapappfont(self, desktop, x, y):
        active_window = desktop.getCurrentFrame().getContainerWindow()
        mapappfont_coordinates = active_window.convertPointToLogic(Point(x, y), MeasureUnit.APPFONT)
        x = mapappfont_coordinates.X
        y = mapappfont_coordinates.Y
        return x, y

[JeJe]

I think you mean JPL then. It looks like he's solved your problem and I didn't.

You edit the thread heading by putting [solved] at the front if you're happy.

[LukeBB]

Oh sorry, JPL solved it Thank you both!!