Re: Coordinate system question
Re: Coordinate system question
- Subject: Re: Coordinate system question
- From: Deirdre Saoirse <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:14:32 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Bell, Carl wrote:
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I'm curious. Why are the coordinate systems in Cocoa based on the
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bottom/left rather than top/left?
Because that's the way Postscript does it.
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Did NeXT, by default, open new windows relative to the bottom of the
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screen instead of the top, since there wasn't a menubar at the top?
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It seems backwards to me, because the desktop and windows are
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"anchored" at the top/left and are resized towards the bottom/right.
Think quadrants of a typical graph. In math, when you plot X = 2, y = 3,
the axis is in the lower left corner.
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