Oh I see! It seems that, if it is in a GOP subpatch or abstraction, it returns its coordinates relative to the GOP area, while if it is in a visible canvas, it returns its position relative to the canvas.

Anyway, this is fundamentally wrong for at least two reasons:

1. The coordinate space should be always the same. Whether it is the

containing canvas or the GOP area, it should be the same regardless of whether the window is open or not

2. This is not consistent with the "pos" message: if you send a "pos"

message to an object, it will _always_ be interpreted as relative to the containing canvas. So for example if you get the position of a cnv and send it to another object, it won't be placed at the same position as the cnv (if they are in a GOP object).

2011/5/9 matteo sisti sette matteosistisette@gmail.com:

Hi,

If I send a "get_pos" message to a cnv while its containing window is visible, I get the correct coordinates, relative to the 0,0 of the window.

However, if the canvas is in a GOP-enabled subpatch of a GOP-enabled abstraction and I it is being shown through the GOP, it returns apparently wrong coordinates.

Is this just a bug, or does it return coordinates relative to something else?

-- Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistisette@gmail.com http://www.matteosistisette.com