Game window stuck partially offscreen

[mankrip]

I'm trying to solve this really old WinQuake problem. When the window is dragged partially offscreen, the only ways to bring it back are to change the vid_window_x and vid_window_y cvars and changing the resolution.

In the thread there's some talk about it, but I've tried the proposed solution, and moving the VID_CheckWindowXY call didn't fix it. I've also tried messing around with various things in VID_RememberWindowPos, VID_Update and MainWndProc.

Does anyone know why exactly this bug happens?

[qbism]

In build 88 there, the window was snapped back to screen center whenever it went off the edge. I think it worked but was annoying for it to go all the way back. In the current build it is supposed to come back just enough to get the whole window on screen. I recall it worked at the time but I see it's getting stuck again. I may have done something in build 109 that breaks it. Or could it be some windows or driver update?

BTW, I tried to browse super8 svn on sourceforge but their new interface is missing dozens of commits. But everything is there using
TortoiseSVN.

[mankrip]

[qbism]

[Baker]

[qbism]

SPI_GETWORKAREA is good to know. Is there a way to retrieve the window size including borders from the API? If the ddraw area is 640x480, the total window is around 660x520.

[Baker]

[mankrip]

[qbism]

[mankrip]

[qbism]

A light just dawned. The change I proposed repositions the window every frame as a work-around for getting stuck. I assumed every windowed winquake was having the same problem. But I tried a vanilla mh ddraw vid_win.c build and it did not get stuck. [EDIT - oops, turned out to be GDI version not ddraw] So I'm going to take a step back to that and build back up...

[qbism]

...ACK, I take that back, I grabbed a GDI version of mh vid_win.c. At this point I'm going with the idea that it's a directdraw thing, keeping the hack, but moving it down below Vid_SetMode if possible.

The issue with GDI is that it is multiple-of-4 only and won't detect native resolutions that don't comply.

[mankrip]